Eurofins reviews

Benefits: 401k contribution is matched 50% up to 3%. In other words, you contribute 6%, and they match 3%. This is the worst retirement benefit of all of the pharma companies I’ve researched as potential future employers (although Lancaster Labs is a contact research organization, not pharmaceutical). There are no sick days, so you have to use PTO is cover those days. Sometimes the management will allow you to work on the weekend to make up sick days. The pay is not in line with the market. For similar job functions I currently perform, large pharma companies in central and southeast PA would pay $10,000-$20,000 more. In parts of Maryland, Raleigh area North Carolina, Connecticut, and Massachusetts the pay can be $25,000-$35,000 more, but the cost of living in many of those places is higher than Lancaster and the surrounding counties. I have a low opinion of my department ‘s management team. The management team is divided into a clique and everyone else who are not in the clique. There is a lot of finger pointing and not enough ownership taking. There is a lot of work delegation by the management (their responsibilities) to their subordinates who do not have those responsibilities on their (the subordinates) job description. My opinion is that more than half of the management team in my department do not possess leadership qualities required by supervisors/managers. I am still being haunted by my student loans. The pay and the management are equally as important to me. If one or the other is above my expectations, then I would certainly consider making a career here.

The pay is very low, despite having a background and plenty of experience in this field. The yearly "raises" are based on a scale of how long you have been with the company and not by merit or extra work you take on, or add in other avenues of responsibility. The raise cap is 3% which is absolutely ridiculous. They refuse to acknowledge that they have a problem with it, even though it's the number 1 worst rated item on their company surveys. The company recently sent out a company wide email regarding the high turnover rate and indicated the number 1 reason for the high turnover is growth. IT IS NOT. Pay your hardworking employees. Give them proper raises and provide them with the opportunity to be promoted so they have something to work for. We are not robots! Many project managers have left due to being offered a significant increase in pay by other laboratories. Eurofins should learn from this.