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quality control lab technician

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manufacturing technician

quality assurance technician

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There’s currently a mass exodus of top talent, whether by outright firing people who have the nerve to stand up to blowhards in “leadership “, or people leaving for better alternatives. The project management "department" is incapable of managing projects. They decide their own priorities, not taking into account other work people need to do. They make disparaging comments to the overworked employees who don't meet their impossible deadlines and talk to everyone like they are school children.  Executive-level management is a revolving door of ineffective and incompetent people. The average tenure for C-suite executives is about 6 months. In that time, they will join, talk about how they'll make everything better, start an ambitious project, then leave. That leaves partially completed projects left with low employees to clean up (see above, project management does not manage projects).  C-suite, VP, and Director level management does not know what is going on at the company. Some just walk in circles around the building for most of the day. They don't understand the jobs that people are doing or the difficulties that we face. When issues are brought up in meetings, we are told that we're being too negative and should be bringing solutions to the table, instead of problems. If a solution to a critical problem requires any delay to production, it will not be implemented.   The company is rife with consultants. The solution for any problem is to spend huge amounts of money on consultants who then turn to existing employees to do their work. The company laid off ~15% of the workforce at the beginning of the year, but never stopped flying in consultants from across the country every week.   The benefits used to be better, but they have made the benefits worse every year to save money.  The best employees are pushed out of the company. Departments will identify the few employees who do good work and give them all of the work. That makes employees burn out at an incredible rate, and all we're left with are the employees who don't have better job offers.
Advice to Management
Use the millions of dollars we spend on consultants to make the employees happier. We're the ones doing the work, anyway.   Make a decision for once. Commit to a plan, give people the resources they need.   Listen to the experts that are already at the company rather than spending money on consultants who don't provide any benefit to the company.   Walking in circles around the building isn't going to solve anything.

I was so excited for this job. The training made no sense they just read you a bunch of stuff to say they told you. They tell you it’s a clean environment but really it’s not except for the filling side. The job it’s self is easy once you get the hang of it, but you sit about 90% of your shift and the rooms are always hot. They tell you to social distance but then make you sit right next to each other to get the job done. Everyday the policy changes. You get written up for a simple mistake while others make huge mistakes and nothing is done about it. There is no such thing as privacy they call you out in front of the whole crew to tell you that you made a mistake. Your job is threatened daily. If the manager doesn’t like you they treat you like dirt and expect you to do 101 tasks while everyone else is having a good time. The demand to get the work load done is to much to be able to do a good job. If you don’t like drama don’t talk to anyone about your personal life they will use it to make rumors and make fun of you. If you have a family I would not recommend this job you never leave on time. People take extra long breaks and don’t get in trouble And makes more work for you. The better you preform the more work you get, once people realize how good or fast you are they make sure you get more of the work load. Just watch your back and always cover your own butt. Never tell management about issues you are having they don’t like that either let it go or fix it on your own. I personally wasn’t a favorite so this wasn’t the job for me but if the supervisor favors you then your good. 

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Leiters is non existent, be prepared to stay until 4am on 2nd shift and have mandatory overtime if you're in manufacturing (1st and 2nd shifts). They'll tell you your hours are four days/week but that's not very realistic with this company. Be prepared to work 5 10hr shifts. Be prepared to be overworked, underpaid, and not respected. If you're in Quality expect for them to cover it up with pizza.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Leiters were awful. Be prepared to fight neck and teeth for a raise but people without college degrees who falsify information will have the leg-up. If you can't provide proof, you'll be called a liar.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Leiters, I think they're so desperate for people, they will hire and keep anyone.

Management
In general, managers at Leiters can't really have a say in how their employees get treated due to HR interference.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Leiters is tense. Be prepared to get cussed out and for gossip to be spread about you.

Overall
My experience working at Leiters was terrible. This company has helped me see what low standards look like in a professional environment. The culture is good to an extent, but you have to prepare for drama and to get cussed out at your job. You have to be prepared to be underpaid and for irregular hours. You also need to prepare to see people perform illegal activities out of view from the cameras so if you report it without proof you'll be called a liar. It's a catch 22.

Most of these reviews are for shift -based positions which do have notoriously high turnover rates. This creates challenges for management trying to maintain a stable workforce, especially as customer base continues to expand. 

That said, new faces in executive leadership seem committed to a servant leadership style with a more empathetic touch. Hopefully this standard is enforced throughout Production so that good people can be retained.

On the Corporate side, things are comparatively much better. Pay and benefits are competitive, the work is interesting, and most managers seem happy to allow discretionary remote work, provided you're delivering what you need to. Coworkers are bright and industrious and managers are reasonable.

The only downside is that opportunity for advancement seems low in some roles compared to what you'd see at younger companies. However, this seems like a natural byproduct of having people placed in the correct roles; if anything, having a defined lane to stay in limits scope creep and ambiguity in day-to-day duties.

All told, if you're an entry-L1-L2 analyst (tech or finance), sales rep, or mid-senior and up with industry experience looking to hone your skillset as part of a rapidly-growing team, Leiters is a great place to be.

The company is a “start-up” so keep your expectations low. High turnover rate in the production and manufacturing department. Little to no acknowledgement for what you do - unless if you’re a favorite.  Seems like a majority of the people who work there are unhappy - all they do is complain about how miserable they are (red flag!). Work culture is non-existent, management is lacking (they think they are more superior just because they work behind a desk), and HR have little to no sympathy. Overall the experience was very unprofessional and too demanding - it’s disgustingly unhealthy.  Also, you would think a pharmaceutical company would mandate all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, think again. There are some employees in the manufacturing and production department who are NOT vaccinated! This breaks all ethical and moral values in the health care system!!  If you work in health care, you have an ethical duty to put patients’ health and well-being first, and getting vaccinated for COVID-19 is integral to that duty. If Leiters is not mandating their employees to be vaccinated then there so-called, “where quality means something” it actually means NOTHING. ZERO. PERIOD. 

When Leiters was a smaller company, they treated their employees a lot better with compensation that was equal to the amount of work and dedication they put in. Now, certain employees with the same job title regardless of who has seniority, are paid $5-$10 more per hour for reasons that are unknown. It seems that the higher-ups at the company couldn’t care less about the people working the physical jobs here. This was made clear when they decided to give everyone a 2% “raise” in 2020, and made it clear that this was going to be the standard every year moving forward. If you reach your 1 year mark with the company, or work overtime every day to get the job done, or go above and beyond what is expected of you, just know that you’ll be getting the same “raise” as the guy next to you who’s only been at the company for 2 months, is late every day, does the bare minimum, and calls in repeatedly. This all starts at the top and the top doesn’t care. 

Management pick and choose which SOP to follow on how they treat lower rung employees. The worker bees most of the time stays inside the cleanroom for hours at a time (4 hours +) without any breaktime. The cleanroom gowning protocol is prohibitive in having a quick break to eat or use the facilities for basic human functions. Employee complaints have fallen on deaf ears. What management did was to encourage workers to sign a waiver saying "it is the employee's choice to stay and work the extended hours with out any breaktime or take their "lunch break" at early hours of the morning. 
Leiter's is not a good company to work for. They treat manufacturing employees like dirt.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Met some good, hard working people there.  Benefits are good.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It was agonizing to watch the upper management as they just couldn't figure out how to run an efficient manufacturing department.  There was so much wasted time.  Direct supervisor and Lead didn't have a chance.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Cafeteria has seating similar to what you experienced in Middle School.  No backs on chairs, etc.  No way to be comfortable during breaks after standing for most of the time.  The worst was standing around every morning waiting for materials to start work and then being rushed to finish a job.

if you work in manufacturing be prepared to spend 50-60 hours weekly in a clean environment. Hours were much more than scheduled, lots of overtime. Typical daily second shift schedule was 3:30pm-3am. the people that work in the manufacturing environment are quite nice but management is clueless about how to deal with people or schedule time effectively. Most enjoyable part was knowing the products you made were going to affect someones life tremendously. Hardest part was working under a oblivious middle and senior management team with high turnover rates for employees. Never felt any change or room to grow within the structure of the company.

Leiters is an excellent place to work! The leadership is very approachable and engaged with employees. The business is growing rapidly and the organization and investors are reinvesting in the business. There are many exciting initiatives underway. Lots of colloboration and great teamwork. Everyone is working hard towards the same goals and are passionate about succeeding. The teams are very focused on quality and exceeding our customers expectations. If you want to get in with a great company while they are still small and make a huge impact, join Leiters. Now is the time.

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