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Keystone State Testing

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Shady Employer, Stay away - Scientist Level I/Lab Technician Keystone State Testing Employee Review

1.0
Jun 20, 2019
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Pros

The type of work they do here is interesting.

Cons

Low/unfair pay (below minimum wage), they offered 1200$/month then changed it to 1000$/month after I quit due to poor management and distrust in the employer. They will not keep a record of your hours; I had to contact the department of labor and industry to try to get at least minimum wage for the hours I put in, but that didn't work well because they will not give you any written paperwork at keystone or log your hours, which they are required to do by law. They have a poor knowledge of chemistry (their main priority as a testing facility). I was consistently treated poorly by CFO (always talking down on B.S. and M.S. holders because his wife the owner has a PhD in physics, but lacks basic chemistry knowledge, was consistently threatened and intimidated as well). The hiring process is completely arbitrary and fails to effectively hire qualified candidates. They tried to withhold my paycheck claiming that they did not have my mailing address (which was on my resume submitted to them, on my license which they photocopied, was submitted in a message on their website, included in the NDA, and I told them over the phone) which demonstrates their poor management and record keeping. They tried to file a false harrassment police report because I called them asking about it and asked if I could just pick it up and claimed I was threatening them with "extortion" because I informed them I would contact the department of labor and industry if I was not paid what they owed me. I worked under the lab manager who had much less experience in chemistry than a recent chemistry graduate. The job description is also highly inaccurate, because I was forced to act as a janitor and clean the entire building for the owners baby shower, and then had to clean up after the shower. This overall is a VERY shady company and I would not recommend anyone work for them.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jan 30, 2026
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Pros

You have the ability to learn. Some of the people hired are great trainers, those people are gone.

Cons

Management is rude and uncaring Promises are made , but never kept. They treat the actual working workers like trash and in the end fire the people who are actually doing the work. Do not move to the area if they say will help you. Unless you are able to get something in writing Do not take the job. They will not actually help you and in truth if you aren't willing to take there world as the truth you will probably get fired. The pay is horrible and they never actually give you the promotions they promise. Some of the coworkers are untrustworthy, Many will throw you under the bus. you must document everything.

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