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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
Aug 8, 2010

Good place to start

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work hours, decent benefits, knowledgeable coworkers. The people you work with are dedicated and strive to do good work.

Cons

Management doesnt value employees, they constantly make their numbers by cutting the benefits of employees but raises are small even if you are a top performer.

3.0
Jun 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Co-workers are very helpful, insightful, and knowledgeable.

Cons

Raises do not come often and the work is manual labor which is physically draining. Relationships between co-workers is catty at times.

2.0
May 4, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good training and experience. If you're a college grad looking to get job experience, CRL will take you. Just don't stay too long. The necropsy and archive departments aren't terrible places to work.

Cons

Where to start... The well fare of the techs and quality data are not a priority. Working nights and weekends and major holidays are expected (and through lunches). In-Life technicians have a ridiculous amount of responsibility and can lose their job over practically nothing. All in all, the office is Disorganized and very disfunctional in almost every aspect. There's inadequate staff for the research projects, archaic data gathering systems, disgruntled/overworked employees at every turn.

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