TestAmerica Laboratories Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great company to work for. Excellent work conditions and room for growth."

"Practically nonexistent raises for more than five years. More attention to bottom line than to quality, technical excellence and retaining key staff. Serious and steady decline in morale for the past two years, with most of us looking for a way out now. CEO and his executive management seem clueless or choose to ignore the situation."

"This company has lost it's realistic understanding of what makes a career."

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"The laid-back nature and good direct management make this job relatively stress free, if you can handle high volume analysis production."

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

"This is a good place to get experience but do not expect the same money you'd receive from the same job somewhere else."

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"BAD higher management. Poor choices like terminating the jobs of longstanding employees discourages growth and loyalty, neither does poor pay. The longstanding employees TAI boasts started with their labs before they were bought by TestAmerica and they cut benefits and pay every year."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Understand that your employees are watching you just as you watch them. Lead by example and make the environment more conducive to growth."

"They treated me bably, then laid me off."

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"The lab I worked for is losing staff and is not able to hire any one as a replacement, and has not given raises for the past 3 years."

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

"Don't bother, this company is no longer hiring and they expect 12 hours of work done within 8 hours with no overtime."

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"At the end, I was put into an entry level job. After about a month, I mwas laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to have enough business to give people raises or close the Tallahassee Lab."

"It is, in all honesty, the worst place that I have ever worked."

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"Nothing. The negativity and lack of infrastructure is a hinderance."

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

"Don't go. That is my main tip. It really is a deadend job. Not a career. A job."

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"To summarize what it is like in TestAmerica, Inc. - Dayton: We live in America. The company is called TestAmerica. It is run like it is NazI Germany. The staff is oppressed. There isn't a career path. No raises. The 401k is not matched. The lab director writes up the employees for any and every little thing. It is really embarassing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No suggestions for management, however, I do have one for the board of directors: sell the company. Sell it to someone who wants to lead by example"

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"The ability to supervise and to have the company put so much faith in me."

"TestAmerica was a good place to learn what I needed to know for my NEXT job."

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"It was a good place to start my career and learn how to be a chemist."

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

"Have patience."

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"The treatment of employees was not a top ten priority."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nit-picking and bean counting drive people away."

"Wonderful people, great place to work, and a lot of freedom to enjoy with very nice managers."

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"The flexibility in your schedule, treating you like an adult that has other life issues and allowing for people to step out when crises may arise."

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

"Don't expect a lot of pay, but at the same time be ready to earn your pay and make great strides inthe areas of instrumentation and laboratory technique. It's a wonderful place to build your resume, and you might just find yourself staying for a long time."

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"Being an Environmental Lab, the pat rate was relatively low; however, they allowed muchmore freedom throughout the work week and treated everyone like family. Truly a wonderful environment in which to work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't take things too personally, when someone leaves for another position or becomes frustrated with lack of pay; the work atmosphere is second to none and the Managers have an awful lot to do with that."

"not an income friendly environment"

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"friendly staff"

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"incompatable salary range, limited growth opportunity."

"Very good company"

What do you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"Near my home and work with good team, study a lot of knowledge about Ion Chromatography"

What don't you like about working at TestAmerica Laboratories?

"Not thing"