analytical chemist

technician

regional sales manager

biologist

rope access technician

Aegis Sciences Corporation

Management only promotes their friends, you work weekends, holidays and 12 hour shifts. No family time. Pay is not suited for the degree requirements and job requirements, constantly lowering the start pay. The management targets people they do not personally like and will make up write ups. Management has no problem getting attitudes with you in front of colleagues. Management has no idea how to run the lab. Do not use the open door policy because you will become a target. Will fire you for any reason. They like sheep, so if you can work and not open your mouth then you will be fine working here. Working here drains your soul every time you step into the lab. Questionable practices in the lab. I would not trust my sample to be tested at this place. I hear the office section is good, the lab portion is not. Every person in the lab is looking for a new job, no one is happy. If they can make a new rule to make your life harder they will. The turn over is ridiculous, a person who has been here a year is considered old because they cannot keep people. Managers bully people who are not their friends. Some managers sleep with their employees. You get one thirty min break and two fifteens for a 12 hour shift but are constantly reminded that they only HAVE to give you one thirty min break for the 12 hour shift and if you don't need the other 15 min breaks then don't take them. They watch the videos and time you and if you are one minute late from a fifteen min break the bring you into the office and scold you and tell you that you are stealing from the company, and they write you up. The bring in people from out of state so they can work them into the ground with mandatory over time. The first month working there it seems amazing, then you will see through all the lies and began looking for a new job. RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN AWAY FROM THIS PLACE

I worked at Aegis back in 2016-2017 & I was let go because we had lost a big client. In November 2018 I was asked to come back to work for the company as they had a full time position opening. I went back and was greeted by a new manager. At first, he was nice & professional. Then, he quickly changed. Knowing about the doctors appointments I had to have he became tired of it. Once we hired a PTO employee who could cover shifts wherever needed, he still made big deals about it. He would then tell a fellow coworker of mine that he didn't understand why I was trying to get pregnant since we aren't married. He told this fellow employee again that I was pregnant when I hadn't yet since we had just found out & we ended up losing the baby. He bombarded me at 4:30 on a Friday evening (shifts end at 5pm) and began to tell me how he got an email about how I was hanging outside of my "room" (office) and how the HR department in which we were contracted in didn't like me. He finally told me at 5pm that I was fired for not being able to stay in my room secluded from everyone else for 9 hours every single day. I would go out occasionally and speak to some of the girls for a minute or so and then go right back to my room. 

I loved the company and everything they stood for. Besides the terrible management by this new manager, everything else was ok. I will say that I had 35 hours of PTO time & when I signed my new hire paperwork it said that they are obligated to pay you atleast for 40 hours if you have over 40 hours of PTO. When I called and confirmed with HR they informed me that they recently changed their policies starting January 1st, 2019 that they are not obligated unless required by the state that they pay you out for that time. 

Will never work for this company again even though I loved it. This last manager put a really bad taste in my mouth.

Aegis Sciences was a let down to say the least. During the pandemic, many coworkers got COVID and were not paid at all during their 14 day quarantine. Those of us who were around coworkers who tested positive were also required to not work until negative test results were provided, which is understandable, however Aegis did not help at all with COVID test prices (they are literally a company testing Covid samples but couldn't provide cheap tests to their employees?) or pay for the days missed when most of us did not have insurance yet that had kicked in. You were out of luck on pay if you didn't have PTO accumulated. HR was a joke when it came to this and they told each of us completely different stories when it came to returning back to work. Many people used up most of their PTO in order to get a paycheck which is not okay considering this is a multi million dollar company PROVIDING COVID TESTING. 

They have hired hundreds of new employees and there is not enough work for everyone. Most days you work half of your shift, then sit and do nothing for the remaining time, which sounds nice but it gets extremely old. If you're wanting to move up in this company, it is HIGHLY unlikely you will be able to do so. HR will tell you that there are opportunities to do so when they hire, but its impossible to have hundreds of employees on the same level and have everyone move up into higher positions. 

You are required to work holidays. You can try to chose which ones, but more than likely you will get scheduled for the ones you want off anyways so plan on working them all. 

Overall, my time at Aegis was somewhat of a joke. I gained valuable lab experience, but I wanted to begin a career in laboratory work, and this job was more of linework with no way to really grow as a career. 



If you're about to be a lab employee, get ready to work 12 hours shifts, two days on, two days off. Sound Great? 5 am- 5pm or 5pm-5 am.. you work at least one day every weekend except one.If you expect to have a family life outside of Aegis...look again. You are not afforded maternity leave, you must pay for short term disability options in order to have time off for pregnancy..yes they look at it as a disability. You are a very disposable employee. Be ready to play favorites and suck up as well as for childish high school backstabbing and tattling! People here are willing to say anything to move themselves up. Upper management is definitely clueless. Outside of the lab employees such as HR think it's an amazing company to work for. They should, they get to work M-F 9-5 and get paid holidays and also get paid the same bonuses you receive for working in the lab. All outsiders of the lab are referred to as those "drinking the Aegis cool-aid". There is no room for advancement unless you have an "in". Middle management are very unprofessional and often act like your "best friend" in order to get information from you and thus will turn on you instantly if they receive lies about their informants. Along with this they often speak to you like they are 14. Favoritism is running rampant in this company! This may seem like a great company on the outside, but walk away...quickly. Although there are no employees currently working in the lab who will openly admit they are unhappy there (for fear of being fired) I can guarantee that at least 50% of them are seeking employment elsewhere!

the only thing positive I can say about this company is that they pay well. their personal leave benefits are good but their health care benefits are not.
don't work for a company that has an arrogant corporate attitude like they are untouchable like this company does. also, the company is heavily involved in politics because of the connection to a senator.
you will have to fit into the popular cliq or you are not worth anything to the company and they do treat all their employees like you are expendable and easily replaceable.
they are quick to let you go for any reason especially if you do not fit their mold and their extremely unrealistic expectations. you cannot be human and you cannot express yourself in any way. so basically, if you are liberal, look for a better suited company than this one. you cannot be unique to whom you are and remain true. you will be judged
the company just does not give a warm fuzzy feeling in that it endorses, supports and nurtures and encourages personal growth or anything. not employee friendly.
the IT dept is treated like red-headed step children of the company and never get any honorable mentions for their support in keeping the company IT infrastructure (which is what keeps the company running along with the lab), the lab gets all the kudos! the management team (the leaders and the team leaders) breath down your back and threaten you for being human and they hover. the certainly watch over your shoulder. you are treated like kids and they do not trust.
also, definitely watch your back in the IT dept. very gender biased too it seems in that dept.

This company is good to get your foot into the door for lab work. It is very assembly line work. They have become a complete mess during this COVID crisis. Management will reward bad behavior and ignore hard work. Might as well do one or two things a day and then go hang out with your friends and do nothing for the rest of the day. They will "promote" people to trainer with no extra pay and without asking. They do not value any opinions of their trainers at all. When issues are brought up with HR or management they are extremely unprofessional about it. They refuse to pay employees who have gotten COVID from working in the lab. They have us crammed shoulder to shoulder in there so it is really no surprise that employees are dropping like flies with COVID. They also promise promotions and advancement in the company when there are none, unless you get to be friends with anyone in management. My entire time with this company I have felt undervalued and unappreciated. They do not care about their employees. They are only numbers to them. Beware that you won't like it here. Benefits are not that great at all. The pay is alright for now, but the environment is toxic. The coworkers are really the only thing that makes work bearable at all. 

As a specimen collector you spend your time at a clinic collecting samples to send off back to corporate. Depending on where you are placed, it can be a great environment. BUT it is all about the clinic. It doesn't matter if you do everything in your job description, if they don't like you there, you will be removed. There is no communication from corporate unless you work in the corporate offices, which is meant to be remedied by a RSM. Though, any information I needed about my job, I learned from someone other than my RSM. I was out for two weeks due to COVID, and the woman they direct everyone to in HR wouldn't respond to any of my calls about unemployment. After quitting, I called with a question about my remaining PTO (which they do NOT pay out), and the woman in HR couldn't answer the phone then either. In over a year and a half of working there, I received no raise. There is no real chance to grow with the company. Overall, it is only enjoyable to work for Aegis if you work with nice people in a nice office, but there will still be no real possibility for growth.

Aegis was a place that did not encourage advancement, unless you were under-qualified and lacked the appropriate credentials. For example, with a science degree at the time, my superior was an individual with the title of "Lead Scientist" and did not possess any form  of science degree, let alone a degree at all. It was a slap to the face every time I attempted to advance my career with this organization and I received a "you're great, but no thank you, not qualified" following each attempt. The culture quickly declined after I was hired, especially when the founder and owner of the company sold out to the highest bidder. I eventually worked toward my masters and parted ways with the company in hopes to join an entity and gain a role that exhibited better work culture, where there was compassion for the employees. I would never suggest this company to anyone, especially since leaving and following the news of the decline of this corporation. I would advise anyone currently employed to leave as soon as possible. This is a dead-end place.

I worked for Aegis several years ago in the pain management laboratory. The company had solid production and automation practices and cranked out a large sample volume, I was quite impressed and it was a good experience in hindsight. I had a really great supervisor/lead who was respectful and often expressed appreciation. My position eventually became monotonous and lacked challenge or engagement, and when I got to the point that I expressed interest in moving to another position or advancing, I got the silent treatment. If you are good at your position, there will be no opportunities for advancement,  unless you are in the "cool kids club" that participates in all of the company extra curriculars. Day to day job/social culture was a popularity contest and felt like I was back in high school. I witnessed many people move on because of this. 

Was great when I first started, was smaller and I actually enjoyed it but got bored pretty quickly as it went more corporate with tons of people being hired on. You definitely need to be friends with people in management to get any form of promotion because hard work really does go completely unnoticed even with the addition of metrics monitoring (aka theyre watching you and your productivity legitimately 24/7). Clear favorites with who can get away with what and the cliques are horrible. It is basically high school and even the older (50+) workers find it a bit pedantic the way these 22+ kids act. I probably would have recommended it last year but even then there was nothing but favoritism and a lack of feeling appreciated. I should have listened to the reviews that I read before working here about people in mild leadership positions only promoting their friends but needed the job. Just get in, get your year, and get OUT

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