Zymergen reviews

I feel like a hamster in a wheel. I don’t have the basic tools to do my job. I don’t have a voice in the company. I’m just an employee who wants to my job correctly and support the company succeed and innovate. - I can’t do that when I don’t have rudimentary tools to execute in my job function. - I can’t do that when departments don’t communicate with each other and don’t trust each other. Management is too busy covering for themselves instead of representing, growing, and nurturing direct reports. They don’t listen when request for equipment and don’t want to cause any waves.

Sure, the company's new, but old enough to already sow the seeds of a toxic environment. Forget about having the basics to perform your job, or even basic respect, if you aren't in research. The attitude that if a Scientist asks you to jump off the bridge, your response must be, "golden gate or bay bridge?" comes from the executive level, so I don't see this culture changing. REF has had half a dozen reported injuries and probably another 6 that haven't been reported, because nothing comes from them. Nobody cares. No changes have been made. A stupid safety powerpoint at all hands doesn't cut it as a response to all of our injuries. ALL software is designed for scientists. Any software implemented in Lab Ops only makes our jobs harder/ more complicated/ adds redundancies. We've asked for software support and have basically been laughed at. I hear others have been hired to do a job function, but aren't given the tools they need to do their jobs. Let's not mention that an RA I has the SAME BACKGROUND/ JOB REQUIREMENTS as a Tech I (bio degree, lab experience), but one is exempt with unlimited vacation while the other is not with a WAAAY lower salary. We aren't learning anything in our positions and have no room grow.