Poor management and a ‘front only’ culture - Senior Biotechnologist GSK Employee Review

2.0
Apr 19, 2025
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Pros

Great people to work with (not including management, e.g. N+1 and above) Acceptable starting pay Great employee benefits.

Cons

Useless speak up channel, even though a whole team lodged an official complaint to the management, nothing will happen to them so long their N+1 likes the person involved and cover up with a show only followup action. Management doesn’t care for the well-being of the employees/biotechs, even though the problem is there for a serious shortage of manpower, they continue to force employees to do more than they can cope in order to meet the KPI for low hours of overtime triggered. When employees falls sick, the N+1 questions the employee regards to the legibility of their illness even though it is certified by a doctor that the employee is unfit for duty. Some N+1 abuse their power and not letting people go on their leave even though it has been applied, while telling the team that it is ok to apply and go for it, more so when the N+1 is self-centred.

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