So far, so good, but poorly organized. - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

4.0
14 Jul 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very relaxed environment, 401k matching, generous vacation policy. You'll find many employees who have been with the company for 10+ years. There's even a yearly bonus program based on pre-determined (and publicized) metrics.

Cons

Pretty disorganized, not very transparent, paperwork is required even for the most mundane tasks, frequent miscommunication among different departments. Additionally, it seems like every year there's some company initiative that seems to fall by the way side. And I almost forgot, they have a TERRIBLE weather policy. The site just about never closes (literally like 2 times in the last 5 years) so if an employee can't make it in, they have to waste a vacation day.

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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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