Lumen Bioscience Reviews

NOTE TO POSSIBLE FUTURE EMPLOYEES: If you value your well being do not apply here right now. Morale has been tanking lately and company culture is in the toilet. People are miserable. The lower level scientists / lab workers are extremely overworked and extremely underpaid. The executives sit pretty with their nice new cars, meanwhile I have holes in my shoes and I can’t reasonably afford new ones. People get cheated out of promotions they rightfully deserve. I know multiple people who are about to start applying to other jobs with positions and pay they know they deserve. Someone had a panic attack at work the other week, an ambulance had to be called and everything, and HR said nothing. No “we care about your wellbeing”, no “you can come to us if you’re feeling overwhelmed with work”, not even a “this employee is okay now”. This has made it clear that HR only cares about the company, and couldn’t care less about its employees. Which is really bad timing because lately people have been crying left and right at work. I have talked to people from all different teams / sections of the company, and this is a shared experience. We were also robbed the other week. Someone has master keys to the entire building. And once again, NOTHING from HR. Nothing on understanding how we might be feeling unsafe in the workplace, not even so much as an update on if/ when the locks are getting fixed. It’s disgraceful. There aren’t enough desks for us. We’re hiring people like crazy but we literally don’t have any room. The common areas where you can work when your desk is occupied / if you don’t have one lack outlets and it’s also a place for people to have meetings / eat lunch so it’s impossible to focus. Upper management literally doesn’t care about any of this. I don’t see how they couldn’t notice either because people are so obviously in distress.

As a junior scientist, job satisfaction is largely dependent on the senior scientist that you work with. Because they are trained scientists, not necessarily trained managers, some scientists are definitely easier to work with than others. Additionally, the junior employees are severely underpaid compared to equivalent jobs in Seattle. The amount of work asked for is not always reasonable given the below average pay. Also, in the past hourly employees were asked not to report hours worked overtime, cheating us out of earned time-and-a-half. This has since been resolved, but it's worth noting that management allowed this to occur under the radar. Lastly, it does feel like some issues get swept under the rug in order to maintain appearances. The brutal Glassdoor reviews, for example, have basically been ignored by upper management. Other than the half-hearted responses to specific reviews, it's been radio silence from HR. The concerns brought up in these reviews have not been addressed in a company-wide manner, leaving current employees to hear about them through gossip. The new 'wellness program' feels like an ineffective, misguided attempt to fix these issues without addressing them directly.