BioFire Diagnostics reviews about "people"

As with most companies, there is some very bad direct and high-up management in some areas of the company. If you end up in the wrong department, you may very well have a particularly difficult and negative experience, like I have recently. But I previously had a wonderful experience here under wonderful direct management and upper management. There are some who are underpaid, but I think you just have to negotiate well when you sign on to work there.

The pay is okay for the job. The 12 hours shifts are very long, and brutal on your wrist and shoulder due to long hours and how the product is manufactured. Management is also very strict with attendance.

If you get put on a team you don't like, you will most likely be stuck there for years. In the last few years, the teams have become very project manager-heavy. I know we need PMs and they are very useful, but the culture is shifting to where actual managers will ONLY talk to the Project Managers, who are often not that aligned with the rest of the team. This has been bringing morale down for a lot of software engineers who are actually leading the teams and making software engineers feel like there is little real growth opportunity, other than slapping a new number behind their title. It seems like recently marketing has decided they know the products more than engineers, and their designs and how to actually do the work is being forced onto software engineers. This has broken multiple systems across the company. I think this has to do a lot with the comment above about management's relationship with project managers.

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!

Being owned by a French subsidiary has led to a lot of "its out of my control" discussions when it comes to compensation or promotion.

I've noticed that many things have been implemented without enough testing - something with fairly obvious pitfalls shouldn't be greenlit. Even when things are tested, they have giant holes that somehow get missed. I get the impression this is due to some things being rushed and no discussions among teams that will be involved or impacted. It's frustrating to watch and continues to be a bad habit among managers. Communication is a huge issue, especially when it comes to process expectations and decisions being made (in and out of your department). Things can get confusing quickly because people aren't told about small "rules" that aren't written down anywhere but are still enforced. Also, it can take FOREVER for decisions to be made and things to be approved. Teamwork isn't really emphasized amongst teams & departments. They refuse to go 100% WFH for positions that can do so. The uppers need to keep up with the times if they don't want to keep bleeding people. Also, they have been slowly reducing employee benefits over the years and raises/ promotions are a joke (less than $1 / do extra work and THEN we might promote you).

would like remote work full time

Parent company took over and the once amazing culture was gutted.