Pros
-Good training and experience early on in a few different processes. -Employing primarily young graduates, everyone tends to have a great sense of humour.
Cons
-Moderately high staff turnover (avg one staff member every 3.5 months in a team of ~15) -Low salary (19.2k after ~3 years of experience) -Poor progression in both salary and role. Once you have 1.5 years of experience, you will want to move on to something new. -Poor sick pay for Covid isolation. (Management say this is an HR decision, either take SSP or annual leave) -Long history of putting business goals above welfare of employees. (e.g pay freezes while company was experiencing growth during the pandemic, not requiring mask use until Jan 2021, weekend work below 4 hours is paid at base rate) -Incredibly repetitive, dull work. Vast majority of processes are mastered in 2 weeks to 1 month. -Very frequent 'surprise' influxes of work. -Uncomfortably fast paced. -Manager has no clue what is happening in the lab at any one time. (no we cannot find 10 minutes for random task X)