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Charles River Laboratories

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Charles River Laboratories reviews

3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(2,376 total reviews)
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Birgit Girshick

64% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Charles River Laboratories has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,376 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
1.0
Feb 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

They had an onsite gym and a clinic on site.

Cons

Oh where to start. Lack of advancement, people being hired for positions based on if you were friends with the manager even if you have multiple HR violations, they don't handle actual problems, they do not care about their employees what so ever, the pay was awful for a high risk job, they don't care if your injured and try to force you to work through your injury, and I'm sure there's more I just can't think of right now. $20 isn't worth potentially contracting something from the animals or living with an injury from work that the company will do everything they can to make getting compensation as hard as possible.

1.0
Feb 26, 2025

Not the best place

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent lab skills learned there

Cons

Toxic work environment, poor pay in comparison to field, poor management

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