Pros
Great benefits package, especially for health insurance and the 401k match. I got along really well with my team for the most part, and especially enjoyed working with my manager and my department head. Lots of great individual contributers, as someone else said.
Cons
While the company's fast growth is impressive, the middle group of contributors suffers the most by not being appropriately staffed up or trained, which is impacted by the volume of people we took on during acquisitions. I supported a few hundred people, and while I loved the employees I worked with, it was difficult to support the workload. My manager was great at helping me prioritize, but so many people want immediate answers and as one person, there is only so much I could do. After moving to a new organization, there are a few things I realized we as an HR department were not handling well. The first was MA Sick - we did not provide any to temps or interns as was required by law, and to my knowledge we were not exempt. I also primarily handled FMLA/STD with our HR Business partner. When I went on my own leave, no letter of FMLA rights was provided to me, and I had to help file my own claim upon my return. I often felt that we were not setting up best practices or SOPs, which was evident whenever one of us was out of the office for an extended period of time. We were often strained by our individual responsibilities and had no SOPs in place to truly help the other employees who filled in for us in our absence. I do think the culture could use a lot of work. A high number of employees felt the demand of upper management without feeling supported. If you need ADA accommodations, be very clear and explicit, and educate yourself on your rights. I was worried I would not be supported with my needs outside of my direct managers, and I know another person whose accommodations were declined despite the fact that, in my opinion, they would not have proved undue hardship upon the company. I do not know if any attempt to compromise was made, and am only one person whose experience may differ greatly from others. I also was not approached for an exit interview, in which I would have been comfortable sharing these concerns. I hope that Repligen continues to grow with respect to its culture and people. My first year there was great, but once I went on leave it felt like everything went downhill past there. Instead of having conversations with me to better understand what I was going through or how it impacted work, some coworkers assumed I was unhappy with the work or unable to do it. It felt incredibly disrespectful, and ultimately I do not feel like I was heard or understood by anyone other than my manager and a handful of coworkers I worked closely with.
