Pros
- No cost health insurance for full-time employees. The insurance is pretty good, too. - Job itself is pretty easy--constant repetition makes it easy to get good at the job pretty quickly. - 2 Bonuses a year. One during the holiday season is especially helpful.
Cons
- Pay is sooo low compared to competitors. Since starting here, I've been offered positions at other labs starting at much higher rates. Wages certainly have not kept up with inflation and raises are not given frequently. - Hours vary wildly from week-to-week, and sometimes from day-to-day. I've had a 4-hour workday immediately followed by a 9-hour workday. It depends entirely on sample volume. There is not a set amount of samples ran on any given day or for any individual test. All samples are processed and ran as they arrive, making the workload extremely exhausting many days. Some labs are slower than others. - The hiring of employees as temps creates an often virulent work culture that devalues them and treats them as disposable. Each lab has it's own environment and way they treat temps. On an organizational level, employees are not offered benefits until their temp period is over. Some people are kept as a temp for a few weeks, some for almost a year. The process happens behind closed doors and management is often even unsure when the temp period will end for their analysts. Temps usually, understandably, harbor frustration towards the company because they are strung along as temps for so long without being offered health insurance or PTO and with no indication of when the temp period will end. Also, I, personally, did not enjoy having to communicate with Noll as a temp. I assume getting hired on directly is a totally different experience. - Favoritism plays a huge factor here. Sometimes very cliquey, tense environment.