Avantor reviews

Terrible leadership, both from the EVP level but also the private equity owners NMC. in the last 2 years there have been 3 CEO/Presidents, 2 CFOs, 3 COO's etc, etc. The original focus was on how to grow and increase value but now the focus is completely turned onto cost cutting. A failed SAP implementation and very poor service/delivery has damaged the brands, the cost cutting measures will only make this worse. There has been a tragic lack of investment in the factories over many years - just got to the NJ plant and you will see for yourself. If you work at Avantor now, get out. If you are considering working there, don't.

1) 6 interviews; offered job had it for 6 months then former employee wants job back and I’m fired for no reason. 2) was assured when hired there would be no layoffs or job stoppage. 3) did not offer any severance 4) the “unlimited time off” is bs! You get nothing when you depart expectedly or not. 5) highly inadequate onboarding - not specific to my division, extensive training about their convoluted in-house processes but not in person training it’s self study and if you have an issue or question you will receive another site to not get an answer. 6) managers are ineffective without an ounce of support when new. Mine went incommunicado for over a month when I was just weeks in the company and I had no idea who to reach out to with questions. 7) HR is unbelievably bad. They are still an old school type organization with no “People Team”, instead styled like it’s still 1978. The HR partner I was aligned with wore shoulder length straggly looking hair and looked as bad as he performed at his role as well. I have zero kind words for this company. They have a history of being given this amazing buffet and filling it with anorexic people. Meaning they don’t manage their gift of non stop in-house referral business they squander that away with little upper management direction. They did me dirty and what and how it went down is of the lowest lows I have encountered professionally in my career.