Good pay, bad work life - Medical Laboratory Scientist Quest Diagnostics Employee Review

3.0
Aug 23, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay and benefits are pretty good. There's a free diagnostic test employees and their spouses can do each year and having good results lowers your health insurance. There's a yearly bonus and performance reviews that any raises would be based on.

Cons

The actual work can be demoralizing. Often times, you will be behind your department's turn around time for samples. Sometimes this is due to people making mistakes, sometimes it's because of recurring instrument issues. There is also a low staffing issue which can cause issues for coverage. Moving up in the company is dependent on people in the position you want moving up or quitting which can be more of an issue depending on what shift you work on.

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Pros

Pay is higher than most in the area. Hours are good. Benefits are good.

Cons

It’s very difficult to get time off for anything, regardless of how much vacation time you have. Only 15% of those hours will carry over and you lose what you’ve worked for and weren’t able to use. Not enough floats to cover the territory so people can actually get time off. Pay raises aren’t very good.

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