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Meso Scale Diagnostics

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Some Pros, significant cons. - Anonymous employee Meso Scale Diagnostics Employee Review

2.0
May 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some very smart people; great technology; innovative and aggressive. Rapidly growing; overall save job.

Cons

Greedy, cheap owner. Control freak who wants to approve every single purchase - even <$10. Employees must prepay work-related expenses and submit an expense report that moves through ten layers of approvals - 4-8 weeks until you get your cash back. Two weeks vacation - 3 weeks max even after >>10 years. Big promises that are soon forgotten (e.g. large bonuses that never materialized even after record years). And for scientists/engineers - don't expect that the company lets you attend scientific meetings. Some of the senior managers suck - they are constantly in crisis mode, can't retain their employees and should not be allowed to manage anybody. Facilities are sub par. Big new buildings were bought, but only a few employees have a nice work place - many work in sweat-shop conditions.

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I get to eat outside when its warm and the free coffee is decent I guess.

Cons

1. The building is designed like a psychiatric ward. There are no windows and there is no decor on the walls. CEO doesn't like when we put things on the walls. Really weird. 2. Management is just not good. They don't understand HIPPA or employee privacy; additionally they lack empathy. 3. Safety is not safe at all. they treat their job like they are supposed to micromanage and nitpick certain individuals on the first floor but people on the second floor walk around wearing no PPE. 4. Management cannot handle any level of push back. If the boss says the sky is blue and you say no I think its cyan, youre fired the next day. They LOVE to fire people for pushback but let people who treat people nasty hang around. 5. The roaches....thats the comment 6. Just a little bit of racist energy and its not good. They dont appreciate black workers and it shows blatantly STAY AWAY. 7. PTO sucks. 8. Unless you are outside of a minority group, there is a ceiling and you will reach it quickly. No room for upward mobility if you dont bear the color they desire.

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