Talkers better rewarded than doers - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

2.0
Feb 28, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Convenient location in Basel city - tools to work and travel expenses (iphones, laptops, home office, credit cards...)

Cons

- very strong resistance to change - not multicultural - personality clashes (ego fightings) - HR - a lot of time is wasted travelling from/to Basel and Visp - only 1 moto : cost savings & optimization for higher stock value & Ebitda

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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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