If you like being treated like an 8-year-old, this is the place for you.
Pros
Honestly, the only good thing about Catalent is the people you work with. You can also learn a lot in a short amount of time, but the potential for that is extremely low once you get fully trained.
Cons
Management is ABSOLUTELY terrible. They don't seem to care at all about their employees, they don't get along with one another (everyone working underneath them gets to suffer because of it), and they are extremely unprofessional (i.e. 'publicly shaming' your coworkers, creating a negative work environment, etc.). My supervisor would 'dig for dirt' on some of my coworkers during one-on-ones, and there were times when he would push for me to say something negative about someone else. Expectations were never clear and sometimes contradictory. There was LOTS of micromanaging - often I had to send my boss a 'report' at the end of the day of the things that I had accomplished. If this wasn't sent by 5 pm, I would get a stern email, asking why I hadn't sent it, and if I had forgotten the next day, disciplinary action would be taken. I personally don't need a lot of positive reinforcement when I'm doing my work, but we very rarely ever received any recognition from management. Work schedules are not flexible. If you come in early, you are scolded for it. If you work too much overtime, expect a meeting with your supervisor about why you're working so much. If you don't work any overtime, you can also expect a meeting with your supervisor about not being a team player. Don't expect other supervisors/managers to help you with anything either. There are only one or two people from quality that can approve change controls. It takes 2 months to make a change when in reality it should only take 1-2 weeks. If change controls go overdue, it's automatically your fault for not being able to 'push' something through fast enough. If you did try to ask other managers to approve, they would often react negatively. No matter what happens, you are at fault. Training is a huge mess. When I came in, I was told to sit at a computer and read 400 SOPs. I was just SLAMMED, and I had no idea what I was doing. My supervisor was never there to help me and he rarely answered his emails. Nothing is at all organized and no one knows who is actually in charge of coming up with a training plan for on boarding new employees. Different groups have different (and often contradictory) expectations on how an individual should get trained. Someone from management seems to get promoted every week, but none of the lab associates get any sort of recognition. There's no point in going to HR about any of your problems, as they don't seem to know what they're doing either (or they just don't care). Multiple times I had gone home from work in tears because of the stressful environment and I would dread getting out of bed every morning to go to work. The pay and experience may sound appealing, but working here was definitely not worth it in the end.
