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BioFire Diagnostics

Acquired by bioMérieux

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Lazy Work Culture & Terrible Communication Ruin an Otherwise Decent Company - Specialist BioFire Diagnostics Employee Review

3.0
2 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For the most part, the atmosphere is laid-back and the work is easy. Benefits are decent (especially medical since you can reduce your monthly to $0 in some cases). There are a handful of great people that work here and most are friendly. If you work in engineering, the start and end times are flexible, which is really nice! Management is pretty mild. I've had one excellent leader who moved on to greener pastures. Most others are not bad per-say, but lack the drive to really support their teams and invest in the individuals on them.

Cons

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).

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5.0
11 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits with four weeks vacation per year.

Cons

Hard scheduling days off . Always conflicting days.

3.0
25 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work week hours. You get every other Friday off. Plenty of vacation time. Very good 401k. Decent medical benefits. Coworkers are the best to work with. Excellent talent and ingenuity. The developers are top notch, project managers are awesome to work with to a degree.

Cons

If you are a test engineer, you will have every project manager, associate director, director and senior director know better than you how to test software. They conform to the factory based test method. They wont let you deviate so don't try. Even with their extremely educated management, they seem to know little to nothing about Tacit and Explicit knowledge or ignore it outright because it doesn't fit into their outdated method. But aren't above informing you how a test case is to be written so that anyone can run it. (A terrible model that makes lazy testers, expensive test case documents, and crappy software)

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