Harvard Bioscience Reviews
Updated Oct 21, 2020
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"Great company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Harvard Bioscience full-time for less than a year
Pros
Great office culture. Employees are made to feel part of the company. Employee stock purchase plan. Quarterly all hands meeting. Summer outing.
Cons
Company is still working out its challenges of being separate businesses that need to be consolidated. Growth appears to have stalled.
Continue readingI agree, growth is a priority.
"Once was a great company...."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time
Pros
Benefits were good, provided opportunity to move within
Cons
No clear direction provided to employees and always changing expectations
Continue reading"Quality is not a priority"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than a year
Pros
Assembler Techs are good team players and work hard
Cons
Quality is not something they enforce to the point where they don't have a QC department or worker. I was there for 2 years and things went backwards to they point where they laid-off the Marketing group and QC department is no more. Management is to top heavy for a company that is not trying to keep up with new technology. Engineers have been in the company to long and has lost touch with the modern day technology. Where I worked the employees were great people but there are other people that are in Harvard Bioscience that are have hatred towards the people that wanted to make this place better I know this first hand and nobody from upper management cared or did anything about it which in turn I left before the bottom falls out. I'm sad about the ones I needed to leave behind but there are others that need a reality check to see that everything does not revolve around them …..
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"Behind the times and sadly, not striving to keep up"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than a year
Pros
My immediate team was the best!
Cons
Frequent layoffs, no performance reviews or raises given, no concept of lean manufacturing or to even strive for on time delivery to customer. MRP system so out of date that it's essentially just a mechanism for stock levels. Sad.
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"Company in Transition"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time
Pros
Long standing business with a lot of potential
Cons
Lots of change (which is needed) without clearly communicated plans
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"HBIO"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Neutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Harvard Bioscience full-time
Pros
Learned a lot from my manager
Cons
Working out how to structure the company with new changes in management
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"Sales roles at Harvard Bioscience"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
The company has a fairly tight and pleasant in-house culture, at least superficially and has regular informational and call-in meetings. Generally a pleasant and cooperative environment if you don't have to deal with office politics. Benefits, especially medical is pretty good. Nice lunchroom.
Cons
Consensus is they are a bit low on the compensation. While engineers are good, the company has an on-going sub-par marketing effort and team. Product management in the US is weak to poor. Customer service is mostly ok. Overall, upper & mid-management has been sub-par. One of the managers got the position via nepotism by the former CEO. Corporate culture has declined in the last few years. Most of the molecular products are me-too with 25 yr old designs priced too high for the market. I've seen disloyalty by company toward good sales reps. Many people left 2018-19.
Continue reading "Clerical"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Most of the coworkers are team players.
Cons
Most of the managers are not team players.
Continue readingHarvard Bioscience Response
January 8, 2019 – HR Director
Sorry to hear that this has been your experience. By necessity, most managers are very hands on in terms of doing the work.
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"Company has great potential, but ...."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than a year
Pros
Great potential with right technical leadership and knowledgeable marketing leadership.
Cons
Incompetent top leadership in marketing and engineering directorate at company headquaters.
Continue reading - Helpful (3)
"Senior Technical Buyer"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Harvard Bioscience full-time for more than a year
Pros
good people, competitive salary, stable company, competitive benefits, reasonable location,
Cons
high turnover, unstable financially, poor at forecasting
Harvard Bioscience Response
October 12, 2018 – HR Director
Turnover is actually below industry average at about 8% and our finance are in good shape. We do occasionally get forecasts wrong but not by much!
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March 27, 2017 – HR Director