Symbio Laboratories Reviews

- Management do not care about their workers at all. They don’t listen to complaints or suggestions, nor do they have any understanding of the unreasonable amount of work that they try to squeeze out of you - The base rate pay is as low as they can possibly provide, with no overtime pay - A complete lack of proper training for staff learning new tests. Staff are expected to learn and teach methods, without being allocated extra time to do so - Very poor management and organisation. Many important tasks are completely overlooked or mismanaged, leading to chaos - Such a high percentage of staff members speak Chinese (some with only very basic English ability), that for staff that can’t speak Chinese it can feel very frustrating and isolating. It was constantly evident that Chinese-speaking staff were highly favoured by management - Cost-saving measures run rampant, with poor quality lab supplies

Unfortunately this is where the pros end, should you ever suffer the fate of working for Symbio Laboratories here are a few things to keep in mind: - The job position you have applied for will not be what you will be doing, You will be expected to do many others things not in your contract or it will be overhauled entirely. - If you have a degree and just want to work as a regular analyst, do not apply here. There is a system in place that forces you to become a senior in training and if you refuse you will be made redundant for the bottom line. There is no third option. - The work here is gruelling; constant changes to the SOP, a 4-day turnaround (Including multi-day tests/counting weekends), minimal training, lack of space for balances with computers (You will have to wait for others to finish) and people in higher positions contradicting each other leaving you to figure out whats what. - It will take a Herculean effort to get Symbio to cough up overtime pay to the point where it is not even worth it Now if the previous points did not deter you, this might... The TTA This stands for Time to Achieve and is an overview of how much time a test takes, this sounds like a great thing right? No, this time is directly compared to your time clocked in and your "efficiency" is calculated from that. Should your efficiency go below a certain percentage you will either have to answer to the manager (or above) or be made redundant. If its just slightly below be ready to receive higher workloads. If you decide to bust your behind and meet those expectations or worse yet exceed the TTA time, that will become your new baseline they expect you to achieve all day everyday. If you raise concerns that a test is taking too long, tough luck sugar you're the slow one. This leads to a situation where if you do not recieve enough work, you are screwed and have to scavenge around for things to do. Just put on some samples that need to be left alone for a couple hours and the other test you would normally do in the meantime has less or no samples? Or all of your testing for the day has about half the samples you would normally get but have to stay the whole day to finish? Guess you're not that efficient and no longer required ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. If these sound ok to you feel free to apply, theres always a position open at Symbio. Always have a plan B in this place and be aware when you're on borrowed time. If you are a fresh graduate, I'm sorry but this is one of the only labs that are willing to hire (Just keep in mind the previous point about seniors in training).