Novogene Reviews

Oversea staff in HQ (China) can be mean and nasty. Everyone is on the edge and stressed up. Staff are leaving one by one, either getting placed on a Performance Improvement Program (PIP) after 3 major mistakes are made or forced to leave the job because of some absurd reason. Adding onto the PIP, it is basically a 3-month probation program (duration can be varied) and the staff will be asked to leave if a mistake was made during this duration. Even the staff cleared the program, depending on the mistake severity, he might get terminated by the company as well. The only thing that the management focuses on would be cost and profit. Staff well-being is never factored in their planning. They would rather the staff slog out their life, doing over-time with ridiculous compensation than ensuring the staffs are taken care. As long as the staff does not faint, they should continue to work with their best effort even working overtime. In some cases, the management even asked the staff do sacrifice their personal time to work for the company. To them, it is expected of you to do so. Cutting cost is their favourite sports, squeezing every single dollar from any department. To the people who got offered by this company, think carefully. A piece of sincere advice: If you can wait out for a better opportunity, do not accept job offer from this company. The turnout rate is insanely high, partly due to the pay that is lower than the average market rate which they like to exploit fresh graduate. Once you join in, you got to play by their twisted rules.

REALLY BEWARE of this company! All things listed here are true and do not take it lightly as you think it would not be that bad in your case. Yes, they are famous in China and they have state of art machine to run tests. But don't let that fool you and do NOT even step anywhere close to this place. They will try to screw you over in any type of way. First of all, they will try to cut your pay by putting 20% of your base salary in performance bonus category. But at the end of year, they will find any possible ways to cut away that performance bonus by adding tasks to your review sheet that shouldn’t even be under the position. Then, you came to this company to pour your heart out and help it to grow. Once you have help to set the ground for their growth, they will toss you out of the window and try to replace you with someone cost lesser. This includes me (they are trying to find ways to get rid of), and 2 other mid-management employees (one of them got told by his friend that the company is going behind his back trying to find someone cheaper but no success and the other has already got toss out of the window). Extremely passive-aggressive style of management. You are expected to work overtime doesn't matter whether or not you are exempt or not. Even if you are non-exempt, they will try to find ways to cut away your overtime to reduce their cost. There is absolutely no sense of job security. Everyone in any position has a fear of getting fired. If there is a mistake, it’s never the company management’s fault, the management will always try to find a scapegoat from the lower level and blame the problem on that employee. They expect no human error what-so-ever. They will try to find an employee to blame for that missing 0.1ml mistake (no I am not execrating. It was a true incident). I warn you again. Do not, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT come anywhere closer here. You will not be valued as an employee, let along being an asset to the company. YOU ARE JUST A NUMBER THEY CAN GET RID OF ANYTIME.