Molecular Devices reviews

MolDev, a Danaher company, is extremely process focused and requires metrics for every activity. These metrics are monitored often on a weekly or daily basis. This necessarily curtails creativity and creates a lot of reporting overhead. It is very short-term focused in its product development and the vast majority of projects are incremental improvements or reverse engineering competitors products. Danaher itself is very risk adverse and stays away from new, unproven technologies or "leading the wave" type products. This is a poor environment for creative scientists and engineers who want to develop exciting new products incorporating the latest and greatest technologies. Danaher also focuses on Process over People and runs Kaizen events to improve process efficiency. One of the drawbacks for employees is that efficiency increases often can be accompanied by employee reductions.

Some voids in business knowledge due to lots of turnover. Rigorous data driven business metrics (Danaher Business Systems). Challenging work. Morale is sometimes flat. Sometimes I could argue company too driven by bottom line and not enough by core values (...but it is a publically-traded business).