No value for hard working employees at this company
Pros
Some teams are great here and make work fun
Cons
Management is terrible. There is no connection between how every manager is dictating their reports and there is a lack of consistency. They say unlimited PTOs but actually they count them so its not really a benefit, its actually a loss for the employee. Please keep that in mind! Unlimited PTO is a scam here. Some Directors at this company have no biotech industry experience, they lead the decision meetings and its the team that suffers. 1:1s are never about career advancement or "Whats working and whats not working". Some teams have a flat organization and this bothers and hinders how things are done but because complaining to HR or upper management is just going to end up anywhere but good decisions for the employee, people have stopped making HR complaints or getting skip levels to discuss these problems. You spend more than 10 hours a day and sometimes weekends (and late weekend nights) getting stuff done for this company but they don't value it. Upper management is not interested in listening to these employees who have been working at the company for 2, 3, 4, 5 years. This does not motivate us.. Some of us used to be emotionally invested in the company but looking at how you get repaid for it, doesn't even seem worth it. Poor Management, Duplicate processes, bureaucracy, Plenty of micro managing... thats part of the growing Zymergen since 2018 and the upper management doesn't even bother to work with their Directors/Sr Directors to get this right. This is really sad.
