Bio-Rad Laboratories reviews

Feels no longer like a family owned business but is more shareholder oriented since David Schwartz died 3 years ago. They layoff people and projects to make the business grow. Pay is low and promotions are slow (5 years at a time) It is a production based company and has a low emphasis for personal growth. Work-life balance can be skewed. Don't get a laptop. If you do, they will expect more from you. You can easily put in 10-11 hr days and the extra work isn't recognized but then becomes expected. The leadership is stern and confrontational and resistant to new process changes. They are an infantile state of robust design and have no competitive advantage with larger diagnostic companies. You are given a company credit card and you are expected to pay late charges if they don't pay your bill on time even though it isn't your fault. Getting repayment can be a challenge and a huge negative. Get receipts for everything. Management makes you feel bad for taking your personal time off from work from your own account and you must have an explanation to do so, even though policies written encourage you to use your account balance because you have earned it which is highly contradictory between ideals and actions. They lay off 20 year and 39 year seniority personnel right before retirement.

Sometimes there were big problems with the logistic part, concerning late deliveries, backorderes. As for compensation and benefits, I can''t complain, these were pretty acceptable.