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April 2022 by Drew Canning
Bar for SENIOR scientist is below 55k/year. Just another company that refuses to acknowledge inflation. dont bother interviewing.
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November 2021 by Michael Matuskiewicz
ATL's operation is severely outdated and dysfunctional. The QMS is broken on every level. It is practically impossible to comply with due to its unnecessarily convoluted and overly prescriptive nature. Top management lacks basic understanding of efficient QA procedures and will speak to you in a very condescending way if you attempt to make any suggestions for improvements. Every aspect of everyone's job is micromanaged at an intolerable level. If you ask the same questions to more than one person, you will receive contradictory information more often than not. Every department is short staffed because of the toxic work environment.The quality management system and laboratory management system needs to be completely overhauled, but it will likely never happen. Began seeking other opportunities two months after starting. I only lasted as long as I did because I worried about the mental health of the analysts in the lab I managed.If considering an entry level position:I only have made personal observations in the Micro dept, but I have heard there is a systemic problem. Top level management treats staff poorly. The training system is so inadequate, basic training often takes a month or longer. Most job functions have only one person qualified to perform them, which leads to perpetually late results and angry clients. The receiving and testing systems are overly complex and time consuming, which makes it difficult to perform work in an efficient and timely way. Turnover rate is so high it was hard to believe at first. I have been told that it has been like that for as long as 18 years. Stress of analysts is always higher than it should be.
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October 2021 by Alex Dwyer
Avoid working here at all costs!! Even as an entry level scientist!! 1 yr work experience here translates to 0 experience in any other scientific/technical position.The lower level management is pretty okay and your direct coworkers will probably be very young because the company is a revolving door.Most upper level management is absolute garbage: they don't understand science, even at a elementary level, and still attempt to micromanage which just causes unnecessary stress and confusion.Specifically avoid one manager because this person is an immoral fiend with no soul in this person's eyes. This person only cares about their salary and the company profit while exploiting those directly, and indirectly, under themselves.HR at this company is fake: it doesn't exist. They don't care about your personal issues, they just want you to work ungodly hours for pretty terrible compensation.Benefits at this company are okay, but they change providers so often your retirement/health will always be in a strange state of unknown.Brad Thacker's review is the most accurate I've seen.
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May 2021 by Constance Klinedinst
Egregiously unsafe and unprofessional work environment. While as an employee I documented the following personal experiences: wage theft, sexual assault, verbal harassment, poor training, unethical hiring/firing, falsifying data, outdated equipment, encouraged by management to lie, etc.
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January 2021 by Brad Thacker
Avoid at all cost! Terrible & toxic work environment. Revolving door of employees. I was shocked to see how much hiring & firing goes on. I was even more shocked when being fired happened to me. Unless you are an upper level executive you aren’t a happy employee. Employee morale is the lowest I’ve ever witnessed.This company has at least 4 in house job recruiters for a company that has less than 400 employees. That should tell you right there how bad turnover is.I was hired to be a receptionist. Once Covid started they really started taking advantage of me. They furloughed positions and straight up passed the work onto me. I was doing HR duties, running their employee app (I know nothing about running a computer app but I taught myself and felt I did a good job), etc. I was forced to start taking employee and visitor temperates/Covid screenings even though I pointed out to them I help take care of two elderly parents with major health issues.HR is a joke. They are HR on paper and that’s about it. You barely see them because they “work from home”. The whole company is a joke with the highest turnover rate I have ever seen. Most don’t stay over a year. They are fired or find some place else to work. Pay is terrible.I was terminated because I called off after a possible Covid exposure. HR had me continue to work a full shift after alerting them I was exposed by a family member and to “not tell other employees because it causes panic.” I was feeling even more symptoms the following day so I called in. I suddenly had to find my own coverage that morning (which I never had to do previously) and was fired later that day for “not being a team player.” I think the termination was more because someone from HR had to cover the front desk that day and it’s “beneath them” to do so. Doesn’t sound like a team player to me.I was never asked to quarantine. There are several employees who have quarantined countless times for Covid exposure with some quarantining more than once. Including for things like vacations and weddings.Risk my life and my family’s coming into work every day and this is how I was treated. I think they just wanted to bring someone else in for even cheaper. My firing was 1 day before my one year anniversary.I would give advice to ATL about how to treat employees but they don’t care. They also terminated me via phone call and made me pay money to overnight my ID badge.
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October 2020 by Andrew Ryan
Avoid employment here at all costs. Pay starts close to 16/h and the hours can be horrid depending on the lab you're in, since employment there is always a revolving door, you'll be forced to stay longer to cover those gaps. HR and recruiters make close to six figures, for simply always hiring and firing people. Benefits kick in after 3 months and the 401k plan doesn't start until A YEAR, after your start date, simply because they don't expect you to be there that long. Coworkers are great though, but great in a sense everyones suffering, but you're doing it together.
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September 2020 by Sydni McGee
Unethical company that doesn’t care about its employees. I was the most tenured person in my area, and I was told by management I was being laid off in 12 weeks due to “budgeting.” They later accidentally admitted in a phone conversation that our client recommended I be let go because of “low performance,” and the clients input aided in the decision to select me as the person getting laid off (again, the most tenured person in the position). ATL breeched my contract by allowing client input to play a role in the firing of an employee. When I confronted them about this and asked for the details of my termination in writing, they realized they messed up by telling me the illegal truth behind my termination and ignored me. My manager stopped responding to my emails, and HR refused to send me anything in writing and would only offer to call me on the phone to try and cover their tracks. On the Friday of the week when I started asking hard questions, my employee login information was deactivated and instead of having my job for a couple more weeks, I was let go that day. During a global pandemic, nonetheless. Their reasoning was because I had gone to management in the past expressing concerns about some disorganization in the company, and they didn’t want anyone working for them who wasn’t happy there. Instead of taking employee input into consideration and making positive changes based on that input, ATL saw me as a complainer who they should get rid of. Not only that, but they breeched our contract by allowing the client to have a say in my employment. They are unethical cowards with terrible disorganization and poor, poor leadership. Coworkers were great, tho!
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May 2020 by Vincent White
Great place to work and they care about their people!
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February 2020 by Evan McFadden
Greg Neal and Co., run this company intelligently and should be given more credit for the role they play in offering young scientists an opportunity to get their feet wet in the quality control/laboratory science industry. I certainly learned a lot in my time here.
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April 2019 by Thomas Trittipo
A truly awful experience. Avoid at all costs. This goes back to 2012, but I figured I’d give this company a much-needed and overdue review. I quit another job at a major company in the biotech industry to take a position with ATL. There was an opening I was really excited about and I interviewed for it.however, the job I filled was not the position for which i interviewed. They filled that, but gave me an offer on another position in the same company, but it was not a position I wanted, nor was I qualified. There was no training whatsoever and I was rushed into an obviously frantic situation to serve as temporary filler. The entire affair was a joyless experience, a collossal waste of my time and the pay was abysmal. Had I known how bad it would be, I never would’ve explored the option. I managed to squeeze some unemployment out of them though and that felt terrific! I love my career now and would highly advice everyone to avoid temp/staffing agencies at all cost. Run. They do not care about you.
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November 2018 by Jen F
Great place to work!
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November 2017 by Brittany Meenach
I can't say enough how rewarding it is everyday to know I am part of something bigger- part of a community full of intelligent, driven, innovative colleagues, doing amazing work. Great place to work! Great benefits!
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November 2017 by John Faver
Love working here! Great entry level positions for young scientists
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November 2017 by irishhoney22
Clean, quiet. The friendly staff got my wife in and out quickly. Fallowing all safety guidelines.
