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Symbio Laboratories Reviews

2.1

22% would recommend to a friend

(75 total reviews)

23% positive business outlook

Symbio Laboratories has an employee rating of 2.1 out of 5 stars, based on 75 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Symbio Laboratories employee rating is 43% below average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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75 reviews
1.0
9 Sept 2021

Modern Day sweatshop

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Pros

Plenty of opportunities to learn different types of analytical instruments due to the high turn over rate of staff

Cons

-Management do not care about the staff, any issues you have, you may as well talk to a brick wall. Every time an issue is brought forward to them, you'll either get a "we can't do much about that" or "I'll try an do something about it" but the issue will be ongoing and when you question why nothing was done the response is "I don't remember talking to you about that, or I forgot" -The base pay rate is as low as they can pay you, with no chance of pay increase no matter how much time or effort you pour in to the workplace, any senior advancement roles are also low in pay -There is no proper training for any new staff, I've seen a lot of new staff come and go. Management will say that they were not good enough or didn't learn fast enough yet they didn't receive adequate training. Most of the new staff are graduates therefore have no prior lab experience, yet they will be blamed for not learning fast enough once they have been thrown into the deep end. -Extremely poor managament and unorganised, many of the tasks that the manager is responsible for was neglected leading to chaos and leaving the responsiblity of that to the staff to figure out on a daily basis. -Zero work/life balance, you'll be so burnout from working here that at the end of the day you won't want to do anything else

1.0
29 Jun 2022

Soul destroying

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Pros

- Great if you want to develop skills using various analytical instruments - Generally good people and a good culture within the teams

Cons

- Terrible if you want to be treated like a human being by management - Incompatible with a healthy and sustainable work/life balance - Sociopathic CEO, you'll be seeing lots of tears post meetings

1.0
2 Sept 2021

An awful workplace!!

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Pros

As a graduate, you could benefit from the large variety of instruments and tests to learn - if you don’t burn out and crumble from the stress. Some of the analytical instruments Symbio acquires is top of the line, however quickly degrades through poor maintenance.

Cons

- Management do not care about their workers at all. They don’t listen to complaints or suggestions, nor do they have any understanding of the unreasonable amount of work that they try to squeeze out of you - The base rate pay is as low as they can possibly provide, with no overtime pay - A complete lack of proper training for staff learning new tests. Staff are expected to learn and teach methods, without being allocated extra time to do so - Very poor management and organisation. Many important tasks are completely overlooked or mismanaged, leading to chaos - Such a high percentage of staff members speak Chinese (some with only very basic English ability), that for staff that can’t speak Chinese it can feel very frustrating and isolating. It was constantly evident that Chinese-speaking staff were highly favoured by management - Cost-saving measures run rampant, with poor quality lab supplies

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