Lonza Employee Reviews
Out of 127 Lonza employee reviews, 70% were positive. The remaining 30% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Lonza improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Make everyone aware of opportunities to grow!
You can communicate openly and you will be heard
Transparency and good grow mindset
Goal and individual focused, Good support
responsible, play as role example.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Restructuring the leadership team, and removing bias people that are excel sheet masters from the commercial team
Transparency, sincerity, merit based decision making, reducing favouritism, controlling their own egos
Competence, not only bio focussed
Caring about employee development, work experience and focus on quality over just making money
Listen to regular employees rather than just the leadership. There is a high rate of people leaving the company. There is definitely a reason.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Shift differential, all the holidays observed
Salary itself and lunch check
bravo points, 401K matching amount
Matching of retirement contributions and the annual bonus package
Th 401k match is good
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Greater attention needs to be paid to actual overtime. Overtime is very common in this company due to overpromising of resource but middle management see overtime as a key performance indicator negative and will do anything to not recognise and compensate for overtime.
Better pay, a more humane schedule, not being encouraged to overwork myself
Too much work for less money
salary brough up to par with the industry
Having a degree should hold some weight. Employers should pay to retain their talent instead of being understaffed due to talent leaving.
What are some of the best things about your team?
We discuss subjects brought up in the meeting, determine ways to implement ideas
working very closely, everyone is extremely helpful, we learn a lot from each other
Nice atmosphere, supportive and nice to work with
Dedicated group of people with varying levels of formal and informal education.
Issues are discussed and resolved as a team
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
More training and hire talented people
Maybe considering changing their job
Commonplace cGMP practices are a punchline. Things like contemporaneously, performed by/verified, documentation of cleaning, taking rinse and swab cleaning samples of equipment. Having operators sign on uncontrolled printouts. Proper change control well that’s just” silly talk”. Worker safety
If they could stop being childish and divisive we could get along better
Poor communication, combined with constant roll outs of change, constant meetings and managerial requests with limited staff to effect requests are frustrating.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Healthy environment. The culture is respectful
people really like each other, they are like family
support diversity, grow mindset and flexibility
Meaningful relationships developed over the years contribute to a positive work environment.
Friendly nature of the leadership
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Team leaders and above need to be completely changed. Middle management culture is completely toxic and is now endemic. Higher level roles are probably fine as they are insulated from the middle level processes
The board and the executive team should lead by example on integrity, values and behaviors and not just pay lip service to these. They should empower HR to truly lead instead of just being a subserviant function of just admin and to reduce legal exposure.
Eliminate the patriarchy and backwoodsiness of our local site, and adapt a more worldly and inclusive culture
Management creates a hostile work environment
What did you like most about the interview process?
They followed up as scheduled.
Very friendly and engaging but this unfortunately didn't align with the job content
The hr personal are very responsive
It was easy to talk to the interviewers.
Very professional, friendly, I was myself
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Knowing my role is important.
The team I work with
My team, working remotely, career opportunities
The pay and benefits, everthing else makes it not worth it.
I have a very supportive team.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Customer service is terrible and need to improve
Regulatory violations are ignored, explained away, especially if fixing them involves slowing down, conducting trainings or hiring more experienced employees(costs more money)
Stop micromanagement, stop firing people fir your personal problems. Respect diversity, retain resources, learn tolerance. Appreciate sincere people than make fun of them.
Lonza is fantastic about putting out a good product for customers. They however have no idea on how to manage employees morale and retain quality employees. There have been a lot of great workers leaving the company due to poor management.
Local site culture needs to evolve with the times