Recent rapid growth leaves lots of room for improvement - R&D Engineer IDEXX Laboratories Employee Review

2.0
Aug 7, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of opportunity to improve outdated standards and make your mark if you can navigate the water. Departments have freedom to decide what they should do and how to do it, which makes a few parts of the organization world class. Economy proof so far.

Cons

Poor to nonexistent (not SMART) guidelines, goals or development in the majority of the organization. Reviews are roulette (bad reviews in high output years, great reviews for doing little). Many incapable people get promoted, while those striving to raise standards are in trouble. Many managers have been here for over 10 years lack vision, and don't want ideas from the outside.

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Cons

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Cons

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