Pros
Subsidized vending machines and free coffee. Great coworkers (you’ll bond over the many ways the company does you wrong). Jim Datin is cool; somehow knows everyone by their first name. Afshin is a great guy, very personable and always convinces you about the passion behind what we do (unfortunately he’s rarely on site and the company is growing away from what we were told it would be).
Cons
If you’ve done your research, you’ll hear that BioAgilytix is one of the Triangle’s “fastest growing companies” and that they’ve recently expanded their facilities to 21k sq. feet. The company is also global, with their buy-out of facilities in Germany. Great stuff on paper, but what it means for you as a potential employee is that resources are stretched thin, training is minimal and usually provided by someone else who just started, and the expansion provides disconnected lab spaces in which you will be donning and doffing your PPE as you travel through lab and public areas to pick up your samples from a distant freezer. Poor planning of new lab spaces is just the tip of the iceberg of problems you’ll deal with. They run ancient analysis platforms that crash when more than 6 analysts try to log in. They don’t have enough licenses for each employee to gain access to daily tracking systems, so be prepared to “borrow” a log on or bother someone to do parts of your job for you. If a reader goes down in one lab, you’re trekking your plates bare handed and lab coat free until you reach a reader in another suite, only then can you put on your single lab coat that you’re expected to carry with you. They’ll scam you in your offer letter, so read it carefully. Don’t factor your bonus into your compensation because targets are barely ever met. I don’t have room to explain the many pitfalls and inefficiencies of this place.