Promising Beginning & Now Heading for a Freefall - Anonymous employee Encodia Employee Review

2.0
26 Oct 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The immediate folks you work with are kind and considerate. The culture club is fantastic. I thought the pay was fair and competitive.

Cons

Upper management is the biggest problem. They don’t answer questions directly and instead go on long tangential explanations that never circle back to the crux of the issue. Encodia hired very top heavy and grew too fast for where the company was. This was its largest downfall. When asked why the answer was subpar. Instead of hiring more hands in the lab, they kept hiring directors to manage dashboards and appease one another through often useless metrics.

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5.0
4 Jan 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smallish team but good, hard-working people and interesting science. Very competitive pay, solid benefits, unlimited PTO, and a volunteer group that plans fun social events. Seems like people get promoted quickly. Lots of awards for staff who go above and beyond. 24/7 free food and drinks come in clutch if you stay late or come in during off-hours.

Cons

Need to hire more people to support existing workload and prepare for growth

4.0
7 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The work culture at Encodia is one driven by innovation with input welcome from researchers at all levels of the organization. Favor is received by results and work ethic, with office politics seemingly at a minimum.

Cons

There was a concerning development toward the end of my tenure of a budding bureaucratic and corporatist rules sentiment that prioritized a servile, procedure based work culture more fitting of a manufacturing or even military organization that- while potentially useful for large scale product launch- had the potential of both stifling and driving away talent in a highly competitive scientific industry.

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