Pros
I was fortunate and worked on a great team and had a wonderful manager. Being on such a great team made it bearable for me to work there. The other pro is that there were many people that, in spite of the poor management (see the cons below), that cared and actually tried to do the best possible job for the clients.
Cons
There are numerous cons about working for Envigo. 1. It was my experience that the senior management had one sole focus and that was to get the company sold, which they succeeded in doing in November 2021. Unfortunately, the employees and animals suffered during the period leading up to the purchase. 2. There was virtually no reinvestment in the facilities, so many of the facilities are old and very dated. In the one facility that they are trying to retro fit they are taking major short cuts and are not listening to the people who actually have to work in the facility on what needs to be included. 3. They also did not invest in their people. It was my experience that many of the team that did the actual work was overworked and under paid. I know some people that left the company and received 30 to 40% increases in their salaries. 4. Annually every employee would receive a cost-of-living increase, there were no reviews and there were no merit increases, thus there was no motivation to do an outstanding job. 5. I frequently heard upper managers complain that no one wanted to work, since they could not find people to come to work for Envigo at the level of pay, they were offering, which is many cases was at least $5/hour less than working at the local Dunkin Donuts or McDonald's. 6. I witnessed people that were out on maternity level having to work from their hospital bed since there was no one there trained to do her job and senior management did not approve for temp employee to come in. 7. There is no career progression for employees, thus good (and bad) people are forced to leave for career advancement. 8. I was also shocked that they knew that they had a rat pathogen in all of their North American facilities. They justified it by saying that it is not on their exclusion list or on their client's lists; even though many key pharmaceutical and biotech accounts had told them that they wanted to know whenever they found a pathogen in their colonies. Due to the configuration of their HVAC systems, they would have to shut down an entire facility to be able to get the agent out of their colonies and it would cost them millions in lost revenue as well as the cost of cleaning up the facility. 9. There was a great deal of turn in key departments, such as Customer Service, Accounts Receivable etc.