LabCorp Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, especially paid time off. Started with nearly 4 weeks a year. Have a lot of flexibility when it comes to choosing your work schedule (flex time)

Cons

HR is not very knowledgeable of the actually position you are applying for.

Pros

Stable company, you don't have to worry about not having a job. You can move up, especially if you plan to further your education. They do award employees with various recognition for their performance on the job. They are concerned about the quality of work and quantity. They understand that your dealing with people's lives everyday.

Cons

You can't have a weak stomach. Your dealing with alot of biohazard material. You have to be aware that you can't dress to professionally if your working in the lab department.

Advice to Senior Management

I think their should be various awards given to employees like a free vacation, or tickets for games, etc....also LabCorp should continue to get more involved with the community. To know it's not all about the company but people! To show we care!

Pros

Meeting great people on a day to day basis

Cons

You are not respected...at all!

Advice to Senior Management

A little praise would be nice!

Pros

Strong belief in Quality! If desired, there are numerous opportunities for advancement. LabCorp strives to be on the cutting edge of laboratory testing.

Cons

LabCorp has tremendous employees all across the board. LabCorp could improve on employee relations in order to make employees feel like they matter.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate the fact that the each area of the country is different. One shoe does not fit all! Understand the fact that employees need recognition for a job well done ever now and then.

Pros

Decent car to drive
Money isn't awful considering what the duties are

Cons

Poor leadership on sales and operations sides. There is littel to no feedback in the North Central Region. They just 'reorganized" the sales force becsuse they over paid for two labs and missed their revenue target by $11M at least. Now sales people won't have any connection to accounts-just sell them and move on-Customer Service will be some one else's problem.

Advice to Senior Management

This new reorg will not work. The hospital and regional labs who take care of their customers will eat your lunch. No doctor who wants a relationship with their lab salesperson will ever do business with LabCorp.

Pros

Job security Job security job

Cons

All of Labcorps competitors pay considerably higher wages and quite a few employees has left labcorp and went to work elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

If you get more than 20 complaints from employees in a department about the same member of management, please do something

Pros

Big company and part of TOP 2 laboratory in the nation.

Cons

Senior management does not understand complexity of the laboratory jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire the TOP people and keep them.

Pros

The benefits are great (good medical, dental, vision, life, corporate discounts at major retailers, etc.); since LabCorp is a large corporation, there is room for movement* (vertical/horizontal) and the ability to transfer, unlike a smaller lab. There's also no chance of the lab being bought out (closed down, possibly, but not bought out).

Cons

*Movement entails you having a good rapport with your supervisors (not necessarily your coworkers) and being relatively squeaky clean on paper. Unfortunately, even if you work hard, there's no guarantee you'll be recognized or that your abilities would merit further training to make you more of an asset to the company. And as some reviewers have written, you will tend to feel like a number and will get frustrated that there have been people working there for years, but have no clue what they are doing. Your pay is also significantly less without a degree, even if you know more of the work and do more of the work than someone with a bachelor's or a license. It's common for lower paid people to do more tasks while those that are higher up in the food chain do less.

Advice to Senior Management

Please seek out the employees who show good/great potential and nurture them (that doesn't mean push them to work even faster or loading more work on them). There are a handful of people who don't just see their job as a paycheck and try to stand out as good employees, but the numbers you want us to meet and the low pay, coupled with high work loads, aren't motivating at all. You can do all the work flow evaluations you want, but you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. If you continue to do this, more of the good employees will risk finding jobs for other labs/hospitals.

Pros

They do work with you with schedules in some departments. Especially if you have children. You can take a long lunch and then make up your time if you need to.

Cons

It is impossible for someone to get fired if they are bad at their job and do not understand what they are doing or why they are doing it. However come in late a few days or call in too many times and you are out the door.

Advice to Senior Management

Time employed at a company does not equal knowledge of your specific job field.

Pros

The only benefit LabCorp had that was great was the Clear card. If you worked there it's no way you want them handling your blood or your families.

Cons

Unprofessional management, crappy pay, crappy insurance, your treated like a child, SOP's that change every week, they care more about how many patients info you enter than if you get the info in correctly, no compassion if your sick, supervisors have a way of always finding faults but never encouraging the good you do, and they only promote the brown nosers.

Advice to Senior Management

The low level phlebotomists, accessioners, and drivers deserve more respect than we are given. You should be ashamed of yourselves for how you've chosen to pick quantity over quality and put patients lives at risk daily. The way you treat your employees is ridiculous! I've worked for a local hospital and had free benefits and more money in my check and they pay me less than you.