BioFire Diagnostics reviews about "leadership"

The software department is great by shielding a lot of corporate stuff, but other departments are not ran that well. Seems like two companies: Manufacturing and R&D. Most of the bad reviews are for manufacturing, the R&D side is much better. Research park sucks to commute too. Company is going through a transition to BioMerieux who bought BioFire years ago. (Might be for the best) No strong executive decision maker with the transition Unnecessary documentation and red tape Local leadership, is not employee focused and corporate leadership is way to far removed and mostly talk.

So desperate for employees they don't background check and hire very dangerous employees who assault you at work.

Software Engineers are leaving at a crazy rate. Everyone who has left attributes low pay, lack of leadership, no work from home will be offered, poor management communication, and no room for growth. Management doesn't seem to care about this and will not communicate about people leaving. If you want to have a fulfilling software engineering career, this isn't the place (anymore). Your wage will be stagnant, you wont have anyone to mentor your, and you will never talk with your manager. It seems like some managers always try and find something negative to say about you in your yearly 'career development plan' and will use that as an excuse for low raises. Almost everyone under a manager came out of their yearly 'talk' very demotivated. I am not sure how many of these are due to management or HR. Both seem to be a problem.

The hours: they just switched to 24 hours. Not all departs switched to 24 hours but I was. They have 6pm-6am 4 days on 3 days off and 3 days on 4 days off. Great for traveling 4 days in a row etc. I was 6pm to 6am. I willingly chose it and learned later. It was really tough for me personally. Held out as long as I could. The temperature. To me it was freezing. Half of my coworkers disagreed and half of them were cold like me. You can layer up under the scrubs you have to wear though. I would wear the clean room lab coasts they provided but they were pretty thin obviously. I heard the temperature had to be regulated to keep the product correct or something. Makes sense to me. Just that between missing the sunshine and being up at night and then trying to block out the sun to sleep during the day and also being cold a lot I somehow reactivated a right shoulder injury from my previous job. Made it so painful to work. Also some how my digestion went awol. My body just started yelling at me so I had to leave. I know people who still work there and love it. I think if I picked a different schedule, the day schedule my body would have been a bit happier with me and I’d still be there. Still hands down the most solid adult job I’ve had yet!

Bad schedules and poor managers/ leadership. Not many opportunities to move within the company.

right now, BioFire is integrating with the company that bought it so there are some serious growing pains. Leadership has no idea what is coming or what jobs will look like in 6 months.

Lacked rigorous continuous improvement system Some managers lacked strong leadership and decision making skills.