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BioLegend

Acquired by Revvity

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growing company, great culture - Anonymous employee BioLegend Employee Review

4.0
19 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- approachable management (within reason) and really great colleagues - there is a good work culture here with regular company events - employees are mostly young (mid to late 20s, early 30s) and happy to chat/socialise. if you're a positive and outgoing person you will do well here. - the company is also growing fast, change is constantly happening, not always communicated well but it's nice to see management taking real steps to improve things - real efforts by HR to turn problems around (see cons below) - nice big new campus in construction!

Cons

- simply not enough staff, people regularly work 11-12hr days here because there is just so much to do. amount of overtime has gone up lately and people are getting tired. - and yet... for those people killing themselves at this job, options for raise/promotion seem small to none??? - the message I get from this: this company is GREAT to kickstart your career/gain basic skills, but MOVE ON as soon as you've got enough under your belt.

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BioLegend Response
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Great to hear from the UK team! I appreciate the feedback. I agree that the growth can be a real challenge but it is a nice problem to have compared with the opposite! I know that recently the manager overseeing a majority of the business in the UK spent two weeks with the team so hopefully you were able to share your concerns and ideas with him during his visit. If we need to add more resource to the team there, raise this right away. The projections are for more growth in the near future so we need to make sure we are prepared. I definitely want to make sure our teams are able to maintain work/life balance as we are a company that is built to last and grow steadily. So while short runs of extra work will happen, this cannot be the standard. Keep up the great work and feel free to send any ideas to me or your management.

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Great coworkers that were always willing to lend a hand.

Cons

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There are many experienced and collaborative people at BioLegend who you can learn from. Company's growing and collaborating with other branches of Ravvity to modernize. Some managers are very hands-off that they'd allow you space to learn and work independently. Great place to learn and start out in the industry. Free fruits and Kombucha.

Cons

Don't be a high performer, aka a tall daisy, at BioLegend because there are some gangs of toxic people who will try to cut you down to make themselves look better. If you plan to be a tall daisy, take extra precaution. Most are nice and hardworking people and don't like to insert themselves into other people's business. But there are several gangs of gossipers who'd like to take very long breaks to spread dangerous rumors about others, especially the tall daisies. Even if you never interact with them and they don't know a single thing about you, they will search for a littlest thing you do, then turn that into a huge issue. They will spread rumors, distort the truth, and delete context. In your first few weeks at BL, pay extra attention to identify gossipers, people with gang-like behavior, and fiction writers. Take extra precaution when you achieve something (products release, process improvement, business deals....). Do not confront the gossipers directly because they're very good at playing victims. Needless to say, do not tell them anything about yourself. Many people in the management are aware of this issue but they just want to look away. No one wants to fix the culture at BioLegend.

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