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Meso Scale Diagnostics

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Typical corporate soul sucking workplace, driven by nepotism and surviving on patents alone - Anonymous employee Meso Scale Diagnostics Employee Review

2.0
Dec 24, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Few obvious pros. But if I had to come up with something I'd say; 1) The company does offer some chance of promotion to obsequious over-achievers willing to work 12 hours per day achieving nothing. 2) Additionally, the company did inherit patents on some very interesting technology which allows it to charge exorbitant rates for products which are essentially small pieces of plastic. This keeps the company financially viable and hence a provider of secure jobs. It will likely continue to provide secure jobs until some better technology comes along. 3) While senior management is somewhat self-obsessed, hopelessly grounded in nepotism, and in some cases slightly maniacal, they aren't all that offensive on a personal level. Additionally, though unlikely to respond to criticism, they tend to at least listen.

Cons

Too many to list. But to name a few; 1) Moderatish benefits that have a habit of continually being degraded. 2) Woefully nepotistic. 3) Painfully bureaucratic. 4) Very poor information sharing within the company. Employees are generally only aware of work being conducted within their own small group. Lack of procedural understanding between groups leads to constant miscommunication and error.

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Pros

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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