field service engineer

intern

machine operator

scientist

manager

Hologic

Typical work.day consists of setting up.your day in advance, and then watching all fall a part as soon as the work day begins. It falls apart due to customers and the three bosses and senior guys having a different take on your day and their needs. Get to site and talk with customer and change plans again. Getting to work finally, and hopefully no one calls and adds work or alters the plan again..oh wait that always happens. Manage expectations. Traverse the politics of the ruling cliques and hope you don't inadvertently incurr their rath of one of the clique leaders. If you do you will discredited and ridiculed.. My area ans wxerince will very to yours depending on you areas nepotism and friends who have been hired. so unless your "lucky enough to be a relative or a friend rhat was brought in you won't really be trained well or set up for success.  So be prepared to be the catch all guyand to be very submissive  to your ruling class. So for OJT try and figure out and do your homework before hand if you can. about the work your being asked. Be prepared to do must of not all.the days work wand let your coworker do whatever they need to while in the room.that it helps if  you ask to do all the steps so your instructive coworker can field calls from customers and friends and coworkers. Essentially they want to be in the room. Oh and this more than likely will all the training your gonna get unless they like you.so be liked. 
 Just know that technical support hotline number and where to.find tech manuals.  These resources are pretty good and if you really get into trouble they can will.help either by phone or remote connectivity.
 The point being is that it's pretty much sink or swim. So if you are lucky enough to get training pay attention and take charge of your own training while trying and notes. If you don't you get labeled as hopeless very quickly and your career is limited and frustrating. But then again if your family member or friend your results will be much more accommodating and more forgiving. Good thing is if you inadvertently make someone Madd they will degrade your reputation unfairly for months before your essentially rated as a  lost cause and and fair game. 
 Slowly youll.be start to feel so solated you'll just go away or get fired. So big takeaway don't make anyone mad and try not to screw up anything and learn as fast as you can and don't make anyone above or below you feel insecure. 
So keep you head down do everything you can to be as effective and independent as possible. It's easy work great pay but the metrics and pleasing or satiating your coworkers in a way harder and important than doing  the job correctly or feeling comfortable.
 Oh never make your boss look.bad. just know that everyone counts on you knowing your job throughly quickly and  that if you don't know how to do something you better call tech support and hope they don't lead you astray because if they do your life is now harder and your are being judged by coworkers! Fake it until you make it. Just remember to do all that every day and pray you don't let anyone know you made a mistakes  and you'll be fine. Oh and different is not appreciated here. Hive mindset. So the good thing is just suppress any of your individualness and resistance  and innovative thinking is severely frowned upon. Go alone and you may just get along.

Very poorly managed . Management staff was unable to meet the demands of their positions and as a result , structure of the manufacturing site crumbled. Some employees worked hard and put forth effort and dedication into their work and others hardly worked. A typical day included working very hard , and being dedicated to my team . Most days I did other employees work as well. The human resources manager had personal relationships with some employees and those employees received preferential treatment . HR was also very biased and did not perform well in her position as defined by HR guidelines/ Job description. She failed to take action concerning a very serious harassment (by a supervisor) claim even after solid proof was given. It was brushed under the rug.

I did enjoy the type of work . I loved working in mammography, and digital imaging. I became very knowledgeable (without assistance since there wasn't any available) in the testing and troubleshooting as well as QA in manufacturing. the difficulty in the position was a combination of picking up slack of bad employees, and being so poorly managed. Also, a proper HR manager would have added to improving the company, Bringing in all new management staff (preferably competent and not biased)

I did enjoy working with some of my colleagues, learning so much in the area of digital imaging and mammography , and even writing SOPs and revised test acceptance criteria which led to a better product.

I was in the customer support my team was the first point of contact for the customer.  
Due to the fact the company stopped promoting from with in, several of the upper managers did not know or understand the purpose of the team, and would try to implement their old companies policies and procedures to our department before understanding our purpose. 
Projects would be started and dropped by upper management and left to new lower outside management and team employees to clean up. 
Not all departments in the company had this issue but mine did. 

Example: when I first started working for the department all customer calls were answered under a minute. After the new management structure it increased to 20 minutes and it is not seen a a serious concern. 

I believe there needs to be a balance between promoting from within which will keep the product knowledge and purpose constant, and hiring external mangers, whom can bring in new ideas and procedures. 
 
I may be wrong, but this is my personal opinion. 

Hologic is a good company to work for but they will start paying you at the lower end of the scale.

They used to really take care of the people that were in the field and dealing with the customers on a daily business. Everyone from the stockroom to the person in front of the customer wanted only the best for each situation. Over the last 3-4 years much of the executive leadership has been turned over and although there are lot's of ideas, plans and projects underway, they usually produce little in the way of process improvements. There is a major disconnect between the c level offices and the people in the trenches. Unfortunately the customer's are the ones that suffer, the equipment they need to service their patients is technically advanced (best there is) but so poorly supported that reliability and efficacy has suffered. Hologic has replaced experienced and proven performers with young fresh workers with lot's of education but no experience. A well though out balance would be a better business decision. Choose wisely and get your comp deal in writing as the culture statement will not match your day to day experience.

With so many locations and divisions, there was significant overlap in upper management and it was always unclear who the decision-makers were in the organization. This also created highly ineffective projects as cross-functional teams where located all over the country and nobody seemed to prioritize the same things to focus their efforts.  Middle mgmt seemed very protective of their roles and would get outwardly upset if somebody tried to show initiative.  I saw this several times across most departments.   It was therefore very stressful and contentious all the time.  
The group that seemed to call the shots, regardless of the project, was the sales team. One opinion from a favorite sales rep was treated as fact without due dilagence to explore alternative opinions from other stake holders.
Pay and benefits were good, but cost of living in most locations is very high so it evens out.
Would not recommend working here.

Work days were on average 11hour days. I learnt about product life cycles (everything from R&D to product launch), strategic marketing, business case writing and presentation, marketing lingo, EU/North America market differences and how to bring IVD products to market. The company did its best to promote healthy living by having a gym onsite, ergonomic tables/chairs/desk setup, a fantastic cafeteria with great outdoor and indoor seating (located in San Diego, CA so enjoying the sunshine was vital!) and great company days every quarter where we would receive updates on how the company was doing and lunch would be provided. The hardest part of the job was having 7 bosses in 2 and 1/4 years as the transplant diagnostics business arm was not fully understood by Gen-Probe when it was purchased and therefore it was hard to find a suitable Marketing Director for me to report to. The most enjoyable part of the job was learning everything on the job!

The managers don't care about you and your co-workers are rude, nasty, talk behind your back, they hate their job and make it known. Very high stress level and I was showing a manager a program because she didn't know how to use it. It was very lonely and not a good work environment. I would go home crying every night because I can't stand getting treated like a robot and if you made an error the supervior would be on your case like it was the end of the world. They don't appreciate anything, managers come and go as they please, they come in whatever time they want and sneak out of work early. There isn't a "team" environment, it's a bunch of cliques that go outside and smoke for 20 mins every hour. I am so happy to be out of there. The people I worked with would be on social media all day, texting,  on personal phone calls and shopping for clothes online. I'm very disappointed. I was hoping for a long term career, I should have stayed at my previous job .

Hologic use to be a pace that you respected and enjoyed coming to work everyday. All I see now is everyone waiting for there 8 hours to be up so they can get away from here. It's sad Hologic use to be enjoyable to drive to work everyday and do work that you were passionate about. But the current management and HR has taken that all away. Were on a path of employees leaving Hologic after 15 years just because the Culture is so bad. Every person that leaves takes resumes of current employees to try and get them hired on where they are going. Like I said if offered a job at Hologic refuse it and move on to a better company that takes care of there employees. And don't let management threaten your job 3 times a week that if he scores bad on a survey that Cooperate understands that it's the employees and not him and he has tasked him to fire the employees that scored low on the survey. Horrible place to work...Use to be GREAT a real shame....   

I have been at the company for a long time and the best part are the people I routinely worked with (including my team) and the products we produce that save people's lives. 
Sr. Management is hit-or-miss depending on the dept. you work in.  Middle management pulls much of the weight and there are pockets of great collaboration.
The ability to learn new skill sets is a benefit here if you take advantage.  The culture is corporate America - there are plus/minus feelings towards the culture.  It ebbs/flows depending on what is coming down from the top.  
Most enjoyable part of the job was working on cross-functional process improvement teams and experiencing the benefits of your work to improve work processes. 
Hardest part of the job, as with most places, is disagreement with some decisions (or lack thereof) coming from sr. mgmt. and feeling your opinions don't always count.

Primarily consisted of the operation of a production machine and material handling of finished goods and raw material. I also did inventory counts and data entry of production counts into companies system using Oracle. 
The most enjoyable part was learning machine operations; which previously never have done. This was made enjoyable by the challenges involved during pauses which I had to fix errors and then restart machine operating. Days were never the same. Because in my department had only 5 people who actually knew the operation, we became close and almost like a family. 

The hardest part of the job was leaving due to an advancement in title which was told would happen but never did, causing me to leave and pursue other opportunities.

I now can claim machine operations as part of my background as well as being a member of the companies Safety Team and Haz-Mat response team, which I was involved with for over 2 years.

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