The "team leader" had less than a year of experience post-college. The upper management put the least qualified individual out of the bunch to be in charge, give employee reviews, and decide who to hire and who to fire. Whether this was due to nepotism, some convincing manipulation or just plain stupidity on behalf of the management at Eurofins, I couldn't say - however, putting somebody with no experience in charge was a disaster that no one was allowed to question. All training and guidance was supposed to be provided by the newly minted college graduate, as we were only allowed to accept leadership from Eurofins. I was repeatedly warned people were watching and reporting on me since the company we were at at was going through a merger and employees were being cut. Very little actual work was being done, it was mostly just a show on who could sound the most busy/important. It was the most stressful, dysfunctional, narcissistic work environment I have experienced.