Lancaster Laboratories Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Hires college grads with no experience; Great co-workers; Flexible hours; Benefits are decent; High differential rate for second shift employees

Cons – Not much room for growth or development; Employees work here for about 2 years, gain experience, then go to a company where they will make more money for doing the same job; Supervisors and management do not promote participation of analysts in group meetings nor do they readily or willingly take into account analyst ideas or suggestions; Some supervisors are not knowledgeable in the areas they are supervising

Advice to Senior Management – Utilize the employee incentive program; Encourage your workers when they do well and be understanding and helpful when a mistake is made; Train your employees correctly the first time and less errors will be made

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for less than a year

Pros – There really are not any in my eyes.....

Cons – Where can I start - I was hired as a Paralegal and thought that they would train me for the job duties that they would want me to perform. NO! There was no training and when I asked questions they told me that the information "was out there." I than asked about training for the position and they stated flat out that they did not have the time. I have never worked at a company that did not help their newer employees and flat out refused to help and train. I would not refer my worst enemy to this company!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to be there for your employees and when they ask for help and training - DO IT!!! They might be happier and do exactly what you want. I am definitely a trainable person, but when upper management bluntly refuses there are a lot of issues!!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for less than a year

Pros – Excellent training program, extremely flexible scheduling, if you do Data Review you can work from home, positive co-workers.

Cons – They get extremely mad if you make a mistake and will put you in the little room with the bosses and tell you that you will get fired if you do it again.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to be more encouraging, staff meetings are all about how bad everyone's work is and a lot of negative feedback.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Immediate coworkers are fantastic, good people.

Cons – Lack of communication, lack of vision, lack of leadership. No longer a "family friendly" company. Increasing "through put" is now the new paradigm. Micromanagement is rampant. New owners are rolling through the company making sweeping changes that are placing the company 2 steps backwards.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to current employees' concerns and ideas. Show respect for your employees. Stop treating staff as if we were children.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – My coworkers are all wonderful, intelligent, and down-to-earth people.

Cons – Management has gotten ridiculous the past few years. The focus really has shifted away from quality of work to volume of work, and the workplace is dominated by daily updates of certain metrics and other various numbers. Management at a certain level doesn't know about situations from day-to-day that can affect these metrics and when something goes wrong, the chemist/biologists/scientists are nearly always to blame. They want people in their groups who care about the business, but they do nothing to make people care ($25 gift card for Christmas after a year of 15% growth?)

There is barely any room to move up.

Advice to Senior Management – Get your collective head out of the spreadsheets, and really try to understand the situation. Morale has been tanking for quite some time in most places, but you don't seem to care as long as there are bodies in the seats.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories full-time for more than a year

Pros – Management has an appreciation of employees and allows the employees some flexibility. There are often opportunities to cross-train and gain new knowledge and improve skills. Management is open and approachable.

Cons – Salary compensation is rather low in comparison to other companies in the local market, resulting in a higher turnover. The high turnover results in more work for employees as new people are recruited/hired-on.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Lancaster Laboratories

Pros – work schedule is flexible and many coworkers are easy to get along with. There are many opportunities for training and they offer tuition reimbursement

Cons – Pay increases are marginal, and cost of benefits is increasing to employees. Promotion potential is questionable depending on the department

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories

Pros – Good hands-on experience with instrumentation, a good teamwork culture, job stability, great place to work if you like overtime and weekend work

Cons – Management is more focused on the bottom line than performance. Workplace bullying by management is not dealt with by upper management or HR. Management is not always made up of people with adequate technical knowledge which can hinder young analysts from growing. Promotions tend to be based on time served or friendships rather than performance. Employees seem to be expendable, and the company doesn't seem to care when someone leaves the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to stop serving themselves and start listening to their employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories

Pros – The Lab accommodates flexible hours as long as you're working in the labs.

Cons – Low pay, and the standard 3% raise every year.

Advice to Senior Management – Seek out input from Group Leaders, anonymously

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Lancaster Laboratories

Pros – job stability, company does not lay people off

Cons – starting salaries are below average and increase barely account for cost of living

Advice to Senior Management – salaries and perks should be the same for all departments