Harvard Bioscience Reviews

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.

Pros

Benefits were good, provided opportunity to move within

Cons

No clear direction provided to employees and always changing expectations

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 …..

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 MRP system so out of date that it's essentially just a mechanism for stock levels.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.

Pros

Long standing business with a lot of potential

Cons

Lots of change (which is needed) without clearly communicated plans

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.

Pros

Most of the coworkers are team players.

Cons

Most of the managers are not team players.

Pros

Great potential with right technical leadership and knowledgeable marketing leadership.

Cons

Incompetent top leadership in marketing and engineering directorate at company headquaters.