Charles River Laboratories Reviews

Pros

Nice bunch of people to work with and a good location Good for an inexperienced young people to learn science and gain experience. Prefer females to do routine work and good promotions with life/work balance Good for British natives as they are mostly recognised for promotions, training and career prospects. Good for female leaders to be succesful

Cons

-Too much hard work as you cannot handle and management doesn't care at any cost, only think about their targets and career prospects with the rated high-bonus at the year end. - Some people in the management are inhuman-robots and selfish only concern their progress on the line. Sometimes, they are just laughing and spending the time on PC for sports cars or other nonsense. and laboratory staff doing all the hard work, but they don't care and respect. -If you are a group leader or above, then you will be lucky as you can supervise other people even without knowing the science behind experiments sometime. -Internal politics are too harsh. -Only promote and treat people who are in the right side. If they don't like you, they will rip you in some hard- parts of the project. -There are some old guards (15 years or above) who control the entrance and exits, even they can sack senior managers who do not listen to them using their dirt-tactics with HR puppets. -Some females are promoted very quickly, you will be surprised how they made promoted so quickly when you know their working strength.

Pros

Some of the people are amazing, hard working and dedicated people with very little given back to them for their dedication

Cons

Very little interest in helping people progress, badly managed, constantly firefighting due to high staff turnover and under staffing, pay is very poor, unpaid overtime expected

Pros

Friendly staffs and supportive HR is so helpful

Cons

Low pay and There is no progress path after some years