technician

compounder

pharmacy technician

pharmacist

assistant

SCA Pharma

The turnover rate is extremely high and upper management does not care because everyone is easily replaceable with the countless applications they receive. Most of the employees are miserable and are consistently working on their exit strategy - week after week someone is resigning or quitting. The pay is slightly higher than most other comparable jobs at other companies but expect to be overworked; you are basically not allowed to have a life outside of work. You will be told on very short notice that you are required to stay several hours past your scheduled time. Working on Saturday which is supposed to be occasional, quickly goes from once a month, to twice a month and even occasionally three times per month. They don’t care about you as a person, only that there is a body doing a job that gets product out of the door and money made. You are just a robot or a machine to them. The PTO is very slowly earned; it is the slowest I have seen at any company. Most of the departments have a uniform or specific clothing that you have to wear. You can not be lazy or think that you can play on your phone all day. In most departments cell phones are banned plus there are cameras everywhere and you will have no time for that anyway! Communication and decision planning from upper management are terrible, they have a hard time deciding something then sticking with it. You will be told one thing and then by the end of the day or the end of the week they will change their minds - such as when the scheduled shut downs are, when a media fill will take place, which Saturdays are being worked. Each department should be trained in a way that helps them have a better understanding of the workflow in the building so that  everything moves along much more efficiently but that is not the case. Needed supplies and equipment are frequently not available.  The training for the departments that I have knowledge about is severely lacking. 
Positive things: No work on Sundays, closed on every major holiday, some departments and positions have the opportunity for overtime if desired and some have forced overtime, the medical benefits costs are ok - depending on your family size

As a compounder the job itself is not difficult. The fellow compounders are full of drama and animosity. The managers and pharmacist are fully aware but do nothing to mitigate the situation and in some instances even keep it going. Staff retention is non existent. Wearing the suit is definitely not for everyone. The work culture is terrible. Management plays favorites, you are not allowed to have a negative opinion. They do not care how you feel about anything. If you do speak up, you will have a target painted on you. Management will gaslight you and make you question your own sanity. Management will also lie to your face with a smile. There have been times where employees have threatened other employees and absolutely nothing was done. There have been verbal fights in the cleanroom and some that were close to being physical and yet nothing was done about any of it. If working in a hostile environment is what you want then go for it. They will fire people and then lie to the rest of the staff saying they quit. The company is not at all transparent with their staff. The director even told us that we are paid well for uneducated people. 10/10 do not recommend. 

SCA Pharma could potentially be the leader of the 503B industry.  They have the people, the knowledge and skills, however, they have a leadership team in place that has not changed since the company was a small business. The leadership team is the downfall of this business as they lack "team" skills that help build a successful business.  They continue to bat their heads around a few problems and have no idea how to fix them. Instead of stooping low enough to ask the people in the trenches (that deal with the problems on a day to day basis) they continue to bat their heads together and get nowhere.  Lack of a training program in most departments leads to mistakes and inefficiencies. The company spends money on outside sources and hires from outside which leads to terrible morale company wide. Which leads to another huge issue - MORALE. The moral of the employees is very low.  With a leadership team that has no idea how to play as a team, and is so unorganized that the place is utter chaos day in and day out, it is no wonder the employees feel lost, confused and unstable. I do hope that SCA continues and becomes a leader eventually but unless they take drastic changes in their leaders I don't see this happening.

Yes, while the job does give you decent pay it lacks in a lot starting with what they will give you a headache! Which trust me you are going to get a lot between the chemicals they use to clean their products, or just the mental abuse you are going to get. Let's not forget the physical abuse you will receive from working there. Your body is going to be broken for a long time. Best part through all the abuse they will let you go without warning. Always show up on time? be flexible in any role you're assigned? Terminated. There are a lot of good people that work here, and they will support you in everything you do there but like with every job there are some bad apples. A Pharmacist will pick out their favorites and make sure they have an easy day or help them grow in their career or because they are with them romantically but if they hate you watch out, they will make sure you are held back. Company moral is at an all-time low there with the high turnover rates, but management does not care at all about that just product and money. They do not know their left foots from their right.  As you get pto with each pay period, they will automatically take it if you are sick.

Hostile work environment. Unprofessional atmosphere. Abuse of leadership. A very untrustworthy environment. An unfriendly environment. Not much guidance. Very critical. Unappreciative. The worst communication I've ever seen from adults in my entire life. Things are not always kept confidential. When I was there they sent an email asking current employees for positive reviews on Glassdoor because they had so many bad ones. The company has a 50% turnover rate yet no strategic goals in place to fix it, and have yet to address low company morale. I would run very far from this place. There is way too much bureaucracy and no trust.They did a rebrand of their logo and it's shaped like a tear drop...I think it's made out of all the employee tears that have been shed while working there.

I worked in the microbiology department, so others may have different experiences. I worked here for around a year and went out of my way to be the best employee possible at first- completing the mountains of training as quickly as possible, always asking what more could be done around the lab, etc. I was always asked to do more, and to do what I was already doing faster. Eventually I burned out, and was denied any sort of raise for all my effort despite the many millions of dollars this company makes every year. Management in the micro lab expects their staff to expect to be overworked whenever it makes the company a buck and to be happy while doing it. 

SCA has a work culture where most people work hard and overtime is usually indefinitely available, and in many cases expected. Because it's a growing company, there are good opportunities for advancement, and likewise wages for most positions are very good. I would say SCA is a good fit for someone who is open to sacrificing work life balance a little bit in exchange for more money/career advancement. Management varies by department, but my personal experience is that management is largely well chosen and reasonable and SCA often promotes from within. I often feel a little stressed at work, but I never don't feel like it's worth it or like I don't have a clear sense of what the value of my job is to me. 

I really loved going to that place until the good management started dropping like flies and everyone was looking for a new job. They want to work you so much no compensation what so ever only 20$ Walmart cards which in my eyes were cheap to the employees they had great people working there until they pressed people to work 6 days a week and only have Sunday off which they tried to make employees feel guilty for not working on sundays as well they talk you to death that this is a career place but it really is not it’s all who you know within the company HR was probably they worst I ever felt with she feels a career can be made by making 15$ which is really not that amazing I liked the co workers there just management and HR are awful

Do not work here. This company only cares about numbers and not the people that actually build the foundation of the workplace. Breaks were taken away, you park at an unsafe location off-site, overtime is micromanaged along with everything else, and inappropriate behavior is abundant throughout the workplace, from managers and supervisors. Lay-offs happen on a weekly basis and countless benefits have been taken away from workers. The place is comparable to high school in regards to how people act and treat one another. The pay is well above average a long with the medical benefits but you only get around 8 hours of PTO a month and worklife balance is not work it.

It was a good place to work for, for about a month until seeing through the lies and experiencing how management treated employees.
  There seemed to be a tread of disrespectful/narcissistic people in charge. If you chose to stick up and speak up for yourself,  you're treated like YOU are the problem. 
 Management would also talk bad behind others backs in front of other employees as well. 
Many things were witnessed and experienced while working there and it was all sad, frustrating, 
Disgusting behavior, and in no way was it respectable or professional.
If you are the type of person that values worth and self‐respect. You would not be able to tolerate what goes on in this workplace.   

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Technician 3 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Compounder 5 salaries reported	$23.00 per hour
Pharmacy technician 2 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Pharmacist 1 salary reported	$62.50 per hour
Assistant 3 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour

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