EMSL Analytical reviews

2.6

31% would recommend to a friend

(536 total reviews)

Dr. Peter Frasca

64% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

EMSL Analytical has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 536 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The EMSL Analytical employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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536 reviews
1.0
Nov 4, 2015

Run for your life

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Pros

Coworkers are pretty great and friendly. The position is a good stepping stone for the future but that's about it.

Cons

Where do I even start? First of all you don't get appropriate training and then managers wonder why you don't know half of the things you are supposed to know. When this backfired and I said straight up that I wasn't doing something because nobody told me to do this my manager said "Well nobody cares about that in the upper management, we will still get in trouble". No comment there. They sent someone to train me from the other lab who had no idea about some major tasks I should be doing. If I ask a question the answer was "well I don't know how you do it in this lab but in ours its this way". Basically each lab runs differently so how does it make sense to send someone to train me who does not know how my lab functions? This is a company logic and you get situations like that every step of the way. During training everyone gives you different information on how to do things and you are expected to magically know what is the right way. I don't know about other labs but ours has a horrible location which takes forever to get to. Manager is constantly on your case. Sometimes you are so busy and a manager approaches you and wastes your time for something completely useless like "oh do you have that program open? I need to look at something". Why he cannot open it himself on his computer is beyond me. Working with such stupid constant interactions is extremely frustrating especially when you are super busy. If you are late then your manager gives you a long lecture (EVERY TIME) but it's okay for him to be late on a constant basis. This company lacks organization. During hiring process they even have me a tax form from another province. I thought that was strange but now that I work here nothing surprises me anymore. It needs a complete makeover ASAP. The salary is horrible and is not enough to live comfortably. Everyone in my lab is planning to quit except for managers, it is just the matter of timing.

1.0
Dec 27, 2017

Terrible place to work

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Pros

You will learn about hard work and how to deal with a lot of stress

Cons

Everything about this company is terrible. The benefits, the pay, greedy upper management, the way they force employees to write positive reviews on Glassdoor. Look at all the negative reviews on this site - they are all true. You will be worked to the bone and get laid off whenever they feel they want to make more money by putting your workload on the existing employees. Be careful you will have to sign a non-compete so once you are in you are stuck! If you want to quit and get a job at another lab in your field you will have to wait 2 years. It is their way of taking skilled workers away from the competition. you've been warned.

1.0
Feb 9, 2019

Not worth it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-option to do 40 hours in 4 days -decent benefits

Cons

- terrible pay - unsafe work environment - unless you have video proof of a work accident happening at work the company will not pay you for sick leave - no matter how much over time you do or how hard you work it is never good enough - tries to trap you at the company with contracts - the company just really doesn't care about their employees as it is a high turn over company - no Christmas bonus to speak of

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