Life Technologies Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"The benefits were good, the people were great to work with, also breaking the genome."

"Best company for which I have ever worked, at least at the California location."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"In Foster City, laid back attitude, opportunity for advancement, relatively little pressure.Not true of Applied Biosystems in Framingham (defunct)"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't be so greedy. Distrubute the wealth."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"The flexibility"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself"

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Top management not always listening"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your top people"

"Great company to work for."

"Overall I like Life Technologies as a place to work."

"Great company."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"easy of access, good working environment"

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"no career advancement"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"offer training of new technologies"

"Good place to work, but management a little out of touch with rank & file employees."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"I love biotech and working with customers. Dept supervisor, manager and director were great. Variety of work and great learning, training opportunities."

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"When dept was eliminated, no active recruitment from hr for available positions matching our qualifications. A lot of talk about talent retention, but little action."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More open communications with employees, more focus on employee development and career pathing."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"great co-workers"

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"work / life ratio was serverly overloaded as per an employee survey"

"A possible wonderful company, but much work to be done."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"There were a lot of well trained and dedicated professionals. Good people."

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Management was misguided."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This was once the premier genetic research equipment with it's DNA synthesizers and sequencers. Lack of honest evaluations, overspending and growing too fast have made this"

"Great"

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Work independendtly. Have your own office and great environment"

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Wish to have more face to-face contacts with the employees when dealing with them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To pay more atten to the e-mails than to listen to word of mouth."

"I would LOVE to work for them again."

"Applied Biosystems was a great place to work. I wish I had not gotten laid off."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Great people"

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Was very stressful at times"

What suggestions do you have for management?

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"In search for growing opportunity"

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Good working environment where they provide you with tools or other adjustments in delivering your work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A good place for project and quality engineering start-up."

What don't you like about working at Life Technologies?

"Limited engineering capabilities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Introduce designing opportunities with emphasis on applied standards of drawing."

What do you like about working at Life Technologies?

"The interesting and challenging nature of the algorithm development job and company's good benifit package."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think a good manager is the one who knows how to motivate the worker with complete authority."