BioAgilytix Labs reviews

the company is good. Except for one particular department in the company- the GMP department. It has about 30 people working on this team. I had the unfortunate experience of working in this department. If I thought the prior leadership was tough, boy now it is worse. You are forced to stare in disbelief how much partiality happens and no one is held accountable. As the company is a CRO, it’s good to get so many varied projects that you could learn from. You can try your best and give your best however will that be enough for a promotion? Probably will not even be enough for a fair performance review. Hiring practices should be questioned when incompetent managers are hired who completely rely on their direct reports to keep the business floating. Regulations are strict as it is “GMP” yet scientists/ managers are hired with no prior experience. Educational degrees earned are not valued or appreciated. They are mocked instead. Overworked and under appreciated seems to be the norm. Analysts are expected to keep a track of all freezers on site and if a freezer breaks down it’s your job to make sure all the contents are moved to a backup. Loads of extra responsibilities are added onto the analysts. Also, no cleaning crew is employed. Scientists are expected to be taking out trash, vacuuming and mopping on a daily basis. Do you want to be put up for promotions ? Well then, join a sports team so you gain “visibility” among the company. Apparently good work ethics, skills and talent takes a backseat but hey! Let’s play volleyball ! It is so evident that if you are an obsequious person, if you are constantly being fake and constantly praising the managers or the upper management -you will get promoted. Are you good at work though? Doesn’t really matter. You could have the most abysmal work performance - if your manager Is your best friend he will cover for you and promote you. Equality among employees doesn’t exist. Treatment of employees is not fair or just. Some employees are overworked while others watch youtube all day. There is a reason the morale of the team is low. There is a reason why most people want to quit working here. Please value the cerebral strength you have.

DO NOT listen to them about the bonuses. You're promised 10% interviewing, but that never happens. Let's talk about "merit" based pay increases you should be getting every year. I'm not really sure what the executive team was thinking about this year’s pay increases. You'd think they'd correlate with performance reviews, but they didn't. Tons of people that got outstanding or exceeds (the top two performance categories) got minimal pay increases, whereas people that got marginal reviews, and people that were on performance reviews because of their poor performance got large pay increases. Let's just say that caused some tension in the lab... Do you like taking on more responsibility for no money? That's the BioAgilytix way! Promotions at BioAgilytix are when you give someone a new title, and a lot more responsibilities but NO monetary increase other than their tiny merit increase. More than a few people are a little salty about their new positions. The executive team has been getting hostile lately. We recently renovated the building. They didn't really think about the flow of the lab when renovating so you have to walk through the main lobby if you need to get between the labs. We were told it was ok for us to walk samples through the lobby, since it's the ONLY way to move samples. Well the other day, I overheard someone from HR telling the receptionist to keep track of people who brought samples into the lobby because he was going to get us in trouble. Another example would be the Christmas party that never was... The morale in the company was so low that pretty much everyone declined to go to the scheduled Christmas party out of spite, and the party was canceled. Now, we're getting barrages of e-mail from one of the grumpy secretaries about "employee engagement activities". Basically the executive team want us to show up for events outside of work hours while not getting paid. Even though they're voluntary, if we don't respond or we don't attend, we'll get rude e-mail from said secretary. Also, when the exec team sees truthful reviews on Glassdoor, they go on a hunt to find out who did it. Spoiler alert: They're not looking for advice on how to fix morale. As I said before, you meet a lot of cool people here, but don't expect them to hang around for a while. No one is on Facebook while on the job, because pretty much everyone is scheduling interviews or on job search websites trying to find a way out. It's heartbreaking.