WIL Research Laboratories Reviews

Former Employee – worked at WIL Research Laboratories full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good place to work if you've just graduated.

Cons – Career advancement can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer your employees a chance to advance based on merit, not on how well they are liked by management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WIL Research Laboratories full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The location in a small college town is pretty nice. The analytical chemistry lab is newer, well-organized and has good instrumentation.

Cons – The stress level at this company is disproportionately higher than any other job I've had. The employees are forced to cycle between too much overtime to meet impossible deadlines and no overtime with cutbacks of hours. So much stress.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WIL Research Laboratories full-time for more than a year

Pros – Lot's of different people, book fairs, silly little contests, really good benefits (health insurance, dental, vision, 401K, vacation and sick/personal time)

Cons – Too much overtime, management that doesn't know the first thing about managing others, poor pay. Hire tons of people in time need, then lay off the ones making the most money. You are expected to be a warm-bodied robot, and to have no feelings or opinions.

Advice to Senior Management – Take some management classes and maybe a pay cut.

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 WIL Research Laboratories

Pros – The animals are what really make my job fun. And you do not need anymore than a High School Diploma to get into this department and the pay is still really good! Benefits re amazing medical dental eye insurances, Vacation and Sick time after 90 days. And a 401K plan.

Cons – Really Dirty work, unfair management. Hard to work with other people, Not enough pay to even put up with half the crap you do...

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees problems too, we ma be under you. But we are your workers and we just want to be treated with the same respect as we give to you...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – A job for new college grads with little experience. Employees are able to work with a variety of high performance instruments and gain experience in a CRO lab in the pharmaceutical industry.

Cons – There is very little opportunity for career growth and development at Wil Research. Management is very difficult to work with and is consistently blaming employees under them in order to look good themselves. There is very little leadership in the department I work in and the pay is poor.

Advice to Senior Management – Work with your employees to come up with solutions to problems.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WIL Research Laboratories

Pros – Good pay, A leading CRO lab

Cons – Poor management decisions, not very flexible about time off

Advice to Senior Management – Management workshops, be open about opinions

Former Employee – worked at WIL Research Laboratories

Pros – Good opportunity to learn industrial toxicology. Job permits interactions with representatives of pharmaceuical, chemical, biotech and agricultural companies. Chance to make many contacts in he industry.

Cons – Poor pay, lack of incentives, extremely secretive upper management, poor leadership. No career development and lack of recognitiion. Management unreceptive to new ideas and new directions.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to manage properly. Develop some leadership skills. Try listening to your staff once in a while. Try working together.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The people that I worked with were really great and the only reason I came to work each day.

Cons – Management was so secretive. You were always worried about what was going on because there was many closed door meetings. There was no resepect for those who worked at the bench.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your employees and listen to what they have to say. You might learn something. Most know more about business than you do

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

Former Employee – worked at WIL Research Laboratories full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits (medical, 401K) are reasonable

Cons – Very poor management /leadership.
In my case: I had to deal with the supervisor/manager who had personality disorder (it is not joking) and was discriminated in many ways and also ridiculed constantly at work by this manager and his buddy in the same group. However the up level management just turned a blind eye on him.
The company has very short sight, prefer lay off very talented and valuable individuals who get more paid, but keep less talented and less experienced individuals who get less paid. There is no way any companies will be successful by doing such thing.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to recognize and appreciate truly talented people, but it will be useless if the managers themselves are incompetent at their own positions.

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 WIL Research Laboratories full-time for more than a year

Pros – Willing to hire with 0 years of experience. On the job training provided. Reasonable hours and schedule flexibility.

Cons – Extreme lack of communication starting from the top down. Not much room for advancement or growth. Quick to lay off when the budget gets too tight.

Advice to Senior Management – Open up a forum for communication allow employees ideas to be heard and tried. Don't keep non-managers in the dark about what is happening with the company regarding finances and outlook.

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