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The Jackson Laboratory

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The Jackson Laboratory reviews

3.1

38% would recommend to a friend

(450 total reviews)
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33% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

The Jackson Laboratory has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 450 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Jackson Laboratory 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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450 reviews
3.0
Oct 13, 2014

Great internship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendly supportive mentorship, beautiful town, wide range of research, small labs, collaborative environment, people with a range of backgrounds and interests, dedicated to research

Cons

limited time to get results, wish there were more interaction between departments

3.0
Sep 5, 2014

The work environment is very intense.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you work as a postdoc in Jackson Laboratory, you can get good research training on the frontiers and get better chance to publish papers in the top journals.

Cons

The work environment is very intense. People are pushed to work hard and longer, even come to work at weekends.

3.0
Aug 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Retirement, Benefits, Outward facing mission to cure human disease.

Cons

Congested traffic 6 months of the year. Place people in positions of authority that have no ability to deal with people. Management has a "good-ole'-boys" mentality. COO with severe Napoleon complex. - more concerned about himself/salary/getting ahead than others. He is there to be served by the organization...not to serve the organization. Management doesn't like people who think for themselves...they only want a "yes" person. Their excuse for wanting a "yes" person is "customer service". Management knows that there isn't much in this area and exploits the fact. CEO (Liu) is dis-connected and either doesn't see COO's (Charles Hewett) poor management practices or doesn't care. They like to hire outside and pay a lot more than people doing the same jobs for longer periods of time. Some departments have 50 people and of that 50 are 21 managers....talk about a leaning tower! 'Hand-picked' and created jobs for senior management's favorite people.

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