Lonza - a busy place - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

4.0
4 May 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is plenty of customer work coming in to Lonza, and opportunities to see many different (and often challenging) processes. It is a great place to get rapid experience and see a sampling of many different processes coming from small pharma and big industry leaders alike.

Cons

Lonza values Operational Excellence and Lean operations. However, many groups feel that things are now too lean for the current workload. Lonza seems to be tiptoeing on a razor's edge, and I can't help but feel like they will see some regrettable turnover from overworking people once the economy loosens up.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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