Pros
Great place to work if you are entry level - lots of experience you can gain from 1 year of working to leverage into any pharmaceutical facility The pay is ok. could be better but it is fair Benefits are good and you are covered for many things. People are nice and you won't have any people problems - for the most part. It is an easy going atmosphere and company will provide you with events and staff appreciation quite often - without COVID of course The company is slowly growing in terms of profit. In the next couple years they could be making good gains. Lots of side projects that staff could have an opportunity to be involved with.
Cons
Too many and outweighs the Pros Management is the biggest issue. Its a small, startup company and there are many managers who think they know everything while not having the background education nor experience/qualifications to do some of the tasks/investigations. Lots of useless and baseless discussions that happen on the daily and arbitrary theories are constructed to pretty much waste people's time. Slow to change and not open minded to new ways of doing things or new and fresh minds. Issues within the company never gets settled. senior staff are always open for discussion but when something serious happens, they listen and wait for the situation to settle. It's never settled internally. When it comes to hiring new people, they will 90% opt for recent grads or less experienced personnel. This isn't necessarily bad, but with the high turn over rate, the more experienced staff are leaving which makes the company staff very infant in terms of experience. This halts company growth all together. In a small company/start up, you need lots of experienced personnel to help run the company professionally and also to mentor the younger generation. Not much mentoring happens for growth (there is absolutely no growth by the way and could be the reason why) and this leads to 10+ year staff being very incompetent and useless. There are many capable employees to help with incidents and future projects but usually they don't get called upon because of obvious arrogance. Lots of favoritism and department managers protecting THEIR employees unnecessarily. Department works in silos and teamwork is almost non-existent. Departments don't trust other which leads to finger pointing when it comes to investigations. Management more or less takes all the work for themselves and is involved with pretty much everything you do. Either the work is never good enough or there is not enough training so that the expectation is met. They don't micro manage (thank goodness), but work really cant get through without going through the same choke point. Quality department is the big issue. Understaffed and under experienced. They don't have enough staff to cover every aspect of quality and so all the work just goes to the manager, some personnel refuses to learn and others are only capable of performing 1 or 2 tasks and therefore cannot learn. This is the weakest department by far and they control the output of the entire company. They make weird absurd speculations when things go wrong and you are expected to more or less go with it. Otherwise the work cannot be signed off. If you tell them otherwise, they just flat out reject you because its not what they want to hear. Its a frustrating system.