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Charles River Laboratories

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Charles River Laboratories reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(2,372 total reviews)
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Birgit Girshick

66% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Charles River Laboratories has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,372 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Charles River Laboratories employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Mar 14, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good location in pleasant countryside. Staff are enthusiatic, although not as obvious now the Montreal site has been taken over by CRL.

Cons

Loss of confidence in management by staff. Job security a big issue now CRL is continually loosing market share to larger and smaller competitors. Some very poor major decisions on investments by company management.

2.0
Feb 22, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are pretty good.

Cons

Upper management does their best to suppress their workers by overloading them with too much work, discouraging taking breaks, saying you didn't meet their expectations when you did, hiding relevant information, showing favoritism to people that otherwise contribute nothing to the company, and finding ways of getting people they don't like to quit. Reporting any matter is laughed at and never addressed. Previous reviews of this company are pretty accurate.

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