Beckman Coulter Reviews

Pros

This is a place where you can challenge yourself, where the job is rewarding and beneficial to the public.

Cons

Management frequently seemed to be at a loss for how to best accomplish their goals. Lots of going in circles as reorganization seemed to supersede actual planning.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a path, communicate it and work it. Don't keep changing hoping things will improve. Carefully evaluate your people so you keep the good ones and let the dead wood go.

Pros

Great for entry level personnel

Cons

Little room for growth
negative corporate culture

Advice to Senior Management

micromanagement uninvests employees

Pros

The people you work with becomes a part of your life.

Cons

Company lacks a program that reviews potential talents of employees to reassign them to different roles. Recognizing and leveraging the right talents and giving people a chance to do something different will most likely be more productive.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognition and fairness are important things to watch out for in management.

Pros

Great projects, great teams.
Benefits are very good and work is very satisfying. Life science is a great area to do product development.

Cons

Changes are overwhelming right now. Things will get better but leadership shakeup and new directions leaves everyone scrambling. Ask again later!

Advice to Senior Management

Share information! Too much is being hidden and that raises uncertainty. Trying to move too fast leaves everyone exhausted! Set attainable goals or morale won't ever get better.

Pros

Great work atmosphere. R&D is where I love to work and I look forward to it every day. I am surrounded by hard working, smart and talented people who love what they do and are eager to share their knowledge with me. It is relaxed, but professional. The "work hard, play hard" philosphy is our way of life.

Cons

Need more incentives for good employees. There is a disconnect between upper management and the lower layers.

Pros

People doing the work below department mangers and VPs are the best and will help each other

Cons

Managment saying one thing and acting another.
Do not realy know where or how to lead the company.
Danaher value of employees is only based on $$
too many consultants that conflict with each other

Pros

The people at the site were pleasant to work with

Cons

Acquisition by Danaher has changed corporate value

Pros

good culture, nice people, easy to communicate. interesting thing to learn. the project was about clinical assay improvement. people i worked with were very smart.

Cons

far from downtown, it is in calsbad, had to drive for about 30 min to get there from la jolla. other than that, the environment inside the building was a little old fasioned, but it's fine to work there.

Advice to Senior Management

open more opportunites to the students. come to campus more often. not lot of people know this company although it is very famous and well-known in the industry. need to come often to school.

Pros

They provide excellent training and they make sure you are set up to succeed. The work you are doing to help patients is very rewarding.

Cons

Poor management and lack of a smooth transition with the buyout. There seems to have been some issues with communication from the top down.

Pros

What they lacked in pay they made up for by being flexible in work schedules and environment. Some freedom to self develop was also a nice bonus.

Cons

Senior level management never really seemed to understand what the business was about, more concerned about making money for shareholders. Local management had no clue on how to do their job, only received their jobs through cronyism. Lack of decent pay compared with other similar companies is huge downfall.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow the new owners, Danaher, to run the company their way. There will be an improvement, though it will take time.