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Q&A With Bio-Rad Laboratories Employees
We complement our customer-focused approach with a collaborative, stable work environment that allows employees to succeed and make an impact. With offices in 36 countries, we have built a global community of achievers with backgrounds as diverse as their talents.
How employees describe working at Bio-Rad Laboratories
my self-esteem getting better every day
No one expects you to work after 5pm
Product variety and customer service
culture/ hard to recognize/ not the best
Ancient, tight, scrooge, claim to be "family" but couldn't be further from that
What it's like to work at Bio-Rad Laboratories
- Bio-Rad Laboratories employees generally work 8.9 hrs a day
- Employees at Bio-Rad Laboratories report the work pace is moderate
- On a typical day, employees at Bio-Rad Laboratories have 1 meeting
- 78% of Bio-Rad Laboratories employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Bio-Rad Laboratories employees most often take 15-20 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 60% of Bio-Rad Laboratories employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Bio-Rad Laboratories employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
- 59% of Bio-Rad Laboratories employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With Bio-Rad Laboratories Employees
IDX: 25 TOT: 67
How secure do you feel at your job at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
Its a dead end job, but i'm in the fourth quarter, so I'm just calling time outs and running out the clock to maintain the shrinking purchasing power until retirement. They pretend to pay me, I pretend to work. A match made in prison.
How can I improve my chances of being hired at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
There is nothing to see here. Move along. look elsewhere.
What kind of people succeed at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
those who know someone and have a sponsor/mentor that shield and protects them, as well as cheery pick high visibility assignments with large resource pools. All others are fodder to support the newly chosen prince/princess.
How are layoffs handled in the Operations department at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
with great secrecy and a lack of decency. There is no communications plan. In my time biorad, I've seen the practice of building wide broadcast pages by name to report to the office. I've seen a plant where employees show up for work, but their badges don't work. HR and hired security pull aside the selected employees for dismissal. They are individually escorted to retrieve their personal belongings.
How are the career growth opportunities on the Operations team at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
slim. 4 to 6%. you need to be good at your job, be well liked, be a yes person, and keep your mouth shut when you have an opinion that differs from management.
How often do promotions happen at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
its all budget dependent, not performance dependent. In manufacturing, the supervisor and managers submit promo recommendations for about 10 to 12% of the employee base. 4 to 6% of the population will actually get a promo, as decided by HR and executive management.
What is the best advice you could give someone during their first month at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
If you are new to the workforce, and bio-rad is your first job, then listen and learn. You have no reference point to know if what you are getting is good or bad. You will discover for yourself and define for yourself if the corp culture is a fit for you. If you are a seasoned worker with experiences from a variety of cultures, management styles, you will quickly question all sorts of practices that are self serving and unspoken/well hidden during the interview process. Once you realize this, edit the resume and call your recruiter. Not to defer anyone for working at biorad, there are many factors to consider. Depending on the role, your manager, which part of the organization you work for, you may enjoy months and years ignorant bliss. R&D is well funded. Digital Biology in Pleasanton can do no wrong, despite the fact that they seem to do no right. If you work for manufacturing, cheap is the word. The company is challenged by stagnant/shrinking margins, so cost cutting is king.
What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining Bio-Rad Laboratories?
go research and benchmark salary levels for the same job duties. not title
How long do the interviews usually take at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
45 mins to 1 hour per person.
How flexible is your work schedule at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
depends on your position
How helpful was your Operations team when you were first hired at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
little to no support. Training us by reading documents, and acknowledging a record keeping platform. Hands on training is decent.
Does Bio-Rad Laboratories have any remote positions?
Only remote positions are those in other countries. telecommuting is not allowed at any of the manufacturing, or distribution sites. I suppose outside sales is remote (away from home)
How does Bio-Rad Laboratories make decisions around promotions?
For lower level jobs, talent, skills, hard work pays off. Once above the supervisor roles, and the mid-level roles. for example, to go from a level 2 to a level 3 (level 3 is max), achievement is by politics and who you know, not what you do. The overall promo budget is capped each year, and all promos MUST fit into the dollar cap value. Despite worthy promo candidates based on the merit of their work, you will get cut out and no promo is there is no budget for it. In manufacturing in northern California plants, promos are decided by HR and the director. Your manager may recommend you for a promo, but they are puppets and have little or no sway. Either HR and the director sees you favorably (by reputation) since they don't know what you do or don't do, or they see your reputation poorly, then you have zero promo opportunities. I've seen this happen many times. If you have moderate skills and mediocre knowledge, but are great at saying YES sir, while kissing ass. You will ascend.
How's the vacation policy at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
vacation policy at Bio-Rad Laboratories for new hires is Stingy at 3 weeks (10 days vaca + 5 days sick) all rolled into a paid time off PTO bank. Initial rate is stingy. One additional day is added per year, up to year 6. At year 6, the PTO is at 4 weeks, and there is no additional day added. That is it. On the accrual side, max cap of 400 hours of hired before a certain date. New hires have a cap of 200 (or 210) hours. Then accruals stop. You Just stop earning more hours. That doesn't seem legal. And yet, there it is. You can NOT sell PTO hours back to the company, despite periods where BR will not allow PTO usage, and you have a full accrual bank. Many have lost PTO. Also doesn't seem legal. A few managers have allowed "off-book" retroactive time off when projects clear. There is a firm policy of NO comp time. Zero Nada. For exempt employees who work 2 shifts, weekends, holidays, there is NO comp time. Shame on U. If you value time off. move along. this isn't the place for you.
What's the office vibe like at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
varies by site. Lots of politics. Busy body nosy people where where, always looking and checking and reporting and gossiping. Not a place for the faint of heart.
What are your coworkers at Bio-Rad Laboratories like?
99% are co-workers. People I associate with because someone is paying me to work with them. Less than 1% are friends, people I share my non work life with.
What's the interview process like at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
poorly managed and unstructured. varies by location and by hiring manager. Internal politics still rules. Human resources has a lot of say on candidates. If they don't like a candidate, they have no chance, despite everyone on the interview team's yes vote. Making a good impression with the human resource interview helps a lot.
What do people at Bio-Rad Laboratories think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
Conservative, cheap, myopic, old school. This is who they are and what projects through their actions. They believe that be paying employees less, they will earn more, a classic win lose relationship. They need to figure out how to create a win win partnership with employees.
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
Company buy back on PTO hours for cash at pay rate. They can limit to 50% of PTO balance at end of October each year or 150 hours per year
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Should I work at Bio-Rad Laboratories?
25% of Bio-Rad Laboratories employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 23% are neutral and 52% would not recommend working at Bio-Rad Laboratories to their friends.
| 25% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 23% | Passive |
| 52% | Detractors |
