Bio-Rad Laboratories reviews

Through countless projects I have seen first-hand how management has actively squandered both ideas and talent. The solution always seemed throw more management at the problem which naturally made things worse

My review is strictly about the clinical diagnostics, since I do not have experience in other divisions. Top heavy company. There is very little possibility to moving up. Though part of the employee benefit is educational assistance, they pretty much do not approve any of your request, if it was not directly applicable to your CURRENT position. And of course you would not be in that position if you do not have already the necessarily education to do the job. There is no career development, everyone does the same job, regardless of education level, and even if you move up it doesn't mean you get more responsibility. The job itself is very repetitive, they always fall back to the good old ways, and management is not open to new ideas. If you are a hard core scientist do not even think about working here, you will be frustrated how things are done. Right now it feels like there is no direction, the company is loosing money, they lay-off people and it does not seems like there is an idea how to make progress. Solutions seems to be "band-aid" like. Lots of politics and favoritism.