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Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing

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Great Experience, Low Pay - Associate Scientist Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing Employee Review

3.0
Oct 20, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

At least in the early days of GRAM, you would get to wear a lot of hats and gain experience fast. With other pharma companies, entire departments would handle each individual facet of the company's business. At GRAM, they would have several departments' worth of responsibility shouldered on individuals. GRAM is to your resume as the hyperbolic time chamber is to Goku's power level.

Cons

You will not have the procedural structure found at most other pharma companies, so beware if that's the type of environment you need. GRAM also pays quite low. They always tell their employees that the pay is competitive "for the market," ignoring the fact that they are only 1-2 other pharma companies within 45min. This was made significantly more obvious once Covid hit. The ability to work remotely emphasized how much could be made elsewhere without even relocating. Finally, GRAM has terrible office politics. Entire departments are crippled by middle-schoolesque bullying and gossip. They will tell you that you are family (GRAMily, I wish I were kidding) but I think everyone has certain family members they would rather lose contact with.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

This company seems to put effort into onboarding during the first couple of days. There are some really talented people working here. There is a soda machine.

Cons

The culture demonstrates a lack of trust between management and the team. Continuous improvement is not encouraged and will be considered threatening. The general scheme is to be complacent, and accept that is how GRAM does things. Also be prepared for assignments that make no sense and ambiguous expectations. Please watch out as validation employees work A LOT of off shift schedules as they need 24/7 coverage. You could very much be assigned to work third shift for an entire month.

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