Baxter Design Assurance Engineer reviews

Work life balance and overload

Your fellow analysts and production personnel (with whom you will interact regularly) are nice enough and helpful. However, the department was perpetually understaffed. Baxter could afford 1 more person per shift. Given that this is a cGMP/cGLP pharmaceutical environment with strict documentation requirements, pinching pennies on relatively low-paid analysts is NOT a wise decision. Baxter brass did it anyways, resulting in unnecessary stress, burnout, and turnover. Training is a bureaucratic joke, and if you speak up, you WILL get a talkin-to from HR. The production personnel are treated as disposable by management. Though that is not your problem per-se as you are not production, don't think you are any more valuable in management's eyes. If you are not part of the clique, you will not be promoted. In any case, you will be overworked, asked to come in or work from home on your time off, and deal with endless nonsense that could be avoided IF BAXTER KNEW HOW TO STAFF ITS DEPARTMENTS. Don't tell me "labor costs". The company is not skating by on razor-thin margins. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are not rationing ramen noodles in their studio apartments. Baxter - Round Lake, IL is run by imbeciles, plain and simple. Stay away from the Round Lake location.