Lonza reviews

3.5

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,748 total reviews)
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Wolfgang Wienand

73% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Lonza has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,748 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lonza employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Feb 5, 2019

Growing pains

Recommend
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Pros

Get to work with some great employees. Do some great projects in pharmaceutical industry.

Cons

Schedule driven management, poor control of training, safety last culture, pay is not industry standard it’s central Oregon standard. Culture is not going in right direction.

2.0
Sep 1, 2017

It's all about the bottom line.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefit and vacation package are competitive. If you are a sheep and follow blindly life at lonza could be good. But if you have an opinion that differs you'll have no life at lonza.

Cons

Quickly expanding with little regard to employee work life balance. Bullying and harassment is prevalent yet ignored by upper management. It's all about the bottom line - just get it done no matter how. Career advancement depends on who you know not what you know.

1.0
Nov 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to gain some experience, if you are new to field or just graduated from college. Some great people to work with in the manufacturing department.

Cons

Lots of favoritism going on. Too much politics. You will move up quick if you brown nose the supervisors. Lonza does not know how to utilize talent. Paper pushers gets all the credit, while good workers that are making the company money goes nowhere. So let's just say that it's okay not do any processing and it's okay to have Lots of deviations, as long as you do paper work that office people should be doing, you can move up the ladder quite quickly. Lots of experienced associates have left or are looking to leave. With all the experienced gone, newer associates are forced to fill shoes that are way too big for them. Production is not as smooth, more deviations. Pay is way too cheap for the amount of work and responsibility. Management no longer appreciate the workers, employee appreciation day is now a joke, they rather save money for a Holiday party that not everyone from manufacturing can attend. It's more of a party for office people, not the people making the product and rake in the money. If you work in manufacturing, there are three words to describe it: underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated.

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