EMSL Analytical reviews

2.6

31% would recommend to a friend

(536 total reviews)

Dr. Peter Frasca

64% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

EMSL Analytical has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 536 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The EMSL Analytical employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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536 reviews
2.0
Jan 3, 2019

EMS”helL” - don’t do it!

Recommend
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Pros

I worked with a great group of people. We bonded over our 10-12 hr work days and complaining about the company. We nicknamed it EMS”helL”. Having great coworkers made the days manageable.

Cons

Don’t believe any of the reviews that have 4-5 stars. Dr. Frasca sent out an email company wide asking employees to write good reviews because the reviews on Glassdoor were so terrible. Anyone who really works here and is not upper management would never rate it that high. If you are a tech in any department, you are basically treated like crap and told you are replaceable. Most techs are desperate college grads looking for experience. I was lucky enough to have a few promotions and move up in the company, but buyer beware. You never really get a raise, you are just expected to do your job on top of everything new you learn. If anyone leaves you will be expected to do their job on top of yours. Even with those raises my base pay was really low. You only make any money because of the ridiculous amount of overtime you are required to work because there isn’t enough staff in the lab. There’s too many samples with quick turns for anyone to work 8 hrs. Management will ask you to work weekends and OT, and if samples are late they will micromanage you. Several times we had a manager check on us every hour looking for results. What happened to “no undue pressure” from your handbook? I got hired at another company in an entry level position making $10k more in an entry level position then I was making after 4 years of hard work and “raises” at EMSL. If you are a skilled worker and offered a job here, run while you can! There is a reason they are always hiring, most people don’t stay past a year or two. Do not even expect to have a work/life balance or any kind of acknowledgement for your hard work. This place will suck out your soul and steal your happiness.

1.0
Jan 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You get your paycheck on time.

Cons

Their are too many cons to count. First of all, they are extremely cheap. The equipment is in terrible condition and they spend no money investing in upkeep. If your equipment breaks down, you better find a way to fix it, because upper management won't help you. I had traveled to over 10 branch labs over my career with EMSL, and its the same story everywhere. The pay is very bad. When I would hire a person in 2013 as a manager, the starting pay was the same as what I made when I started with the company in 2003. No increase over a decade, pathetic. The raises are awful. 2% at most if you are lucky to get one. Trying to get anything done was impossible because upper management flat out ignored you. I attempted over the course of 3 years to get a lead department set up, and no one helped me, but then I was criticized for this. This happened so many times in so many situations. I would ask someone for help, whether it was my regional manager or a vice president, I would get no help at all, and then they would come back later and say, "Why isn't this done?". I fired an employee and she wrote a letter to upper management containing a slew of lies and over exaggerations about me. My superiors handled this accusation very unprofessionally. They took every word of what this disgruntled employee who worked for the company for 1.5 yeas said and believed it. I was guilty before any questions were asked. One of the VPs traveled to our lab and "investigated" me by interviewing my employees and reamed me for accusations that were completely unfounded and unproven without any representation from human resources. This is the way they treat dedicated, loyal, hard working employees. The benefits are awful. The health insurance is so incredibly expensive I couldn't even afford it for just myself, I have no idea how someone making $12 an hour could ever afford it. I had to get health insurance independently. You are expected to work insane hours. Several times I was in the lab in the middle of the night and weekends, including Sundays. I had no idea how much money my lab was making. They would spew numbers at you telling you the lab wasn't successful, but since they wouldn't share the revenue information, I never knew if they were being honest. I had signed a non-compete contract with them. After I was let go, various VPs called every single potential employer in the Denver area and informed them of my non-compete contract. Now I am prevented from working in my field, the only field I have worked in my entire career since I graduated college. They really do not value their employees and they do not treat them with respect. When I look back on my career with EMSL, they really failed me on several levels. I am disappointed in them as a company, and I am extremely disappointed in a couple of the VPs, I feel like I was abandoned by them. I am very happy that I do not work for them anymore.

1.0
Aug 8, 2016

You've been warned!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people i worked with.

Cons

Well well... If you are extremely desperate and really really really need a job, working here still may not be worth it. This company should be called Nepotism Analytical, Inc. because your treated like dirt unless you are part of the family, or a friend of the family (not even then- they screw them over too). Anything you do will not be good enough. Even when you are working, people will still run to you managers and tell them your not. Your managers know how hard you work (if they even notice you), but still will not defend you. From the beginning... My first day, it was like no one knew i was coming. I met with the managers for like 10 minutes and then they were gone. My co-workers took me under their wing and started training me; did the managers stop by to check on my progress....NO! I was just another number. As time went on, I became proficient and quick at multiple tests. I worked really hard, along with my other coworkers; you think someone noticed?...NOPE. Our manager would come storming through the lab, straight face, say nothing, and leave - may i add, he did smell good. But he was never around to notice anything. When we were crazy busy, he did not come check on us - offer help? nahh, he just sat in his offer looking pretty. We could not find him most of the time when we needed help or there was a problem. He took forever to reply back to emails, sometimes never even replying. Idk what type of manager he was, no one could ever find him and he had no clue what was happening in his department. He could not even remember our names. My coworkers and I all worked extremely hard, stayed late, came in on weekends. We never got as much as a thank you, good job, raise <--yeah right. There was one co-worker who did get noticed (yess she was a very hard worker), she got 2 promotions, back to back, which came with raises. The rest of us nothing. She deserved her raises but the rest of us deserved raises also! She got praised for work others did. Maybe if our manager actually came around he would have seen our hard work. But even if he did, the managers were always crying about how the company did not make enough money to give us a raise. No, the company brings in millions, they just want to scam their employees to put more money in their pockets. The more money departments saved, the bigger their bonus. Which would explain why our managers never fought/ wanted to get us a raise. Us bottom of the barrel workers are extremely underpaid. We were overworked with no pay increase. The company focuses on saving as much money as possible regardless of the side effects- understaffed departments, work overload, people quitting, disgustingly low pay. They are so desperate to cheat their workers and save money that they try to cross train them in every department, so that they do not have to hire more people. They tried to do this to me and i refused. When you ask them if you would get a pay increase, they look at you like your crazy. They then start crying about how the company does not bring in enough money. So they expect you to do other people's jobs, your job, and everything else, at the same pay rate (which is already way lower than what it should be). Its disgusting, the unethical things the company does, and the managers tell you to do; to save time and money. Clients pay a lot of money to get accurate and correct test results. They don't care about cheating the clients either. The managers do not care about you, they would throw you under the bus, in a second, to protect their selves and make their self look better. People will disrespect and talk to you like your uneducated. Managers run around talking about you and talk to employees about things they shouldn't be. And the owner...he definitely does not care about his workers, because he allows all these things to happen to his workers (why would he care when he is bringing in millions); all he is worried about is materialistic things. <-- More power to him... he just needs to learn not to forget about his workers, the people who get the work done, and keep his labs running [cant get clients samples done without workers] The lab is filthy dirty, ants on the floor, fridges are dirty and smelly, and the bathrooms...

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