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Meso Scale Diagnostics

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I'd prefer to be attacked by a tiger than to work another day at MSD. - Research Associate Meso Scale Diagnostics Employee Review

1.0
Feb 12, 2017
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Pros

Everyone bonds about complaining about the leadership, management, terrible building, frustrating work environment, heavy work load, lack of respect and sadness at the number of people who quit. If you want to work at a 1950s factory where you sit next to a lab bench, are expected to work overtime but are told "don't use your overtime, it will reflect badly on me" by your boss then MSD is the place for you!

Cons

While working here I was attacked by a tiger. No wait, that would have been preferable to working at MSD. MSD < Tiger attack. I joined to work in a particular an R&D Department. After my first few weeks my trainer and co-worker quit. Then my boss quit. So I got moved to a different team and then my new trainer and co-worker quit. So we hired a new replacement employee who quit after 4 weeks. Next we had 3 other team members quit. More than 10 of my 15 person R&D Team quit within a year, with 4 of those being direct team-members of myself.

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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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