Second turnover at AdvanBio - Anonymous employee AdvanBio Employee Review

This is the second turnover that Advanbio has experienced where 8 out of 20 employees resigned within a 5-month period. Senior management denied opportunities to cross-train, and will pigeon-hole them to doing the same thing for the rest of the year. For several months, upper management and HR have been asking their employees why their morale was so low and how they could improve the work environment. Every response that they received, they immediately tried to make excuses for themselves, and denied any accountability. Instead, blame was placed back to the lab associates. Senior management would talk poorly of their associates to other associates, threaten demotion, and for the 0.5 seconds they’re in the lab and sees you with downtime, they’ll immediately complain to other associates as to how poor your work ethic is. It really shouldn’t matter if you have downtime because the project is being done regardless, especially when you’re a non-exempt employee. Your work ethic and time management skills will also be questioned if you refuse to stay overtime due to their last minute requests and lack of understanding of the timeframe it takes to perform their experiments. Barely any of the research done there is considered productive, and ideas will be rejected because there is simply no time in the short deadline they have. Mental and emotional decline is observed in many associates, and I would not recommend this company to anyone unless they are desperate to gain some sort of experience. Just know your monetary compensation will be lower than industry standard, and as of right now, it cannot be negotiated. They do prefer passive employees that can say yes to their demands, and it was seen that a lot of talented people were rejected during the interview process because they were too extroverted for management. If you decide to apply for their operations team, there’s definitely more perks to working there. There was a couple of times where operations team would go out pumpkin picking, restaurant taste testing, and christmas tree shopping to “prepare” for company events while the other lab associates are struggling to meet deadlines. Things might be different now since Advanbio was given the opportunity for a fresh start as all of their senior employees have all left, but major changes are questionable considering the people leading the departments are still present and has lost a lot of talent. Most of the positive reviews are falsified by management in hopes of balancing out the company’s overall ratings.