Pros
Overtime is paid extra rate.
40 hours paid of sick leave after working for the company for 1 year.
Colleagues are nice.
Holiday days are in good amount.
If you like drama, this is the place.
Better hours and faster development if you befriend the manager.
In better hands have portential.
If you have no other choice, then at least gives the ability to work fast, some skills are developed that can be applied in other workplaces, gives something to put on the CV, improves your problem-solving capacity and if you research on your own, some scientific knowledge is gained.
Cons
Employees are expected to perform fast and efficiently from day one when replacing experienced staff that left, with basically 5 min training that ignore all scientific background. This can leave people feeling like rubbish (sometimes people cry due to stress or feel anxious coming to work).
Workload above staff and business capacity requiring people to work for 4 persons, skip or cutting short breaks time and being forced to work overtime. Staff turnover is extremely high, with most people leaving in less than a year. The only advantage of this is that some toxic people leave by themselves. Some areas have people standing all day without rest or chairs provided.
If you have a moment to breathe you are considered lazy and put to do some tasks in another department, even if you were just waiting for some supply to be ready or to follow procedure in bacterial incubation times.
It is set up like a factory as no scientific knowledge is applied and you are expected to just repeat tasks, pressing buttons and such without knowing why you do what, or being explained why. Some departments are worse than others on this aspect.
No work life balance, you are working anti-social hours (most people finish at 9:30 pm or later than that) for basically minimum wage.
Overtime is expected, no extra pay for working weekends.
No sick pay for less than a year of work.
No time or energy to meet people outside work.
If you are a good worker, you are punished with more work or worst shift.
Management has favourites without reason and will protect them, leaving some tension between certain groups. It did improve slightly over time, but nepotism is very present. Also, some people take big decisions that affect who is in the lab, without even being in the lab or in the country.
Essentially it is a very toxic environment, a person gets physically, mentally and emotionally stressed due to the overwork, lack of work-life balance and for fighting for better conditions without success.
It could be a great place to work, as job on theory is not bad, but the execution is terrible. If they fixed their problems, pay slightly more and treat and respect properly their employees will be good.
If you are a good worker, you are punished with more work or worst shift.
Management has favourites without reason and will protect them, leaving some tension between certain groups. It did improve slightly over time, but nepotism is very present. Also, some people take big decisions that affect who is in the lab, without even being in the lab or in the country.
Essentially it is a very toxic environment, a person gets physically, mentally and emotionally stressed due to the overwork, lack of work-life balance and for fighting for better conditions without success.
It could be a great place to work, as job on theory is not bad, but the execution is terrible. If they fixed their problems, pay slightly more and treat and respect properly their employees will be good.