Life Technologies Employer Reviews

It was a very nice working environment,
Well educated scientist, good customer care, quality products, employee benefits were good, management was fair.
Job was very satisfiying, up with the new technologies.
Co workers were professional,
hardest part was leaving the company since it was sold.
I learned alot from experienced scientists.

Great environment to learn and participate in the biotechnology manufacturing process. A typical day at work usually consists of operating machines that synthesize custom oligonucleotides and rotating through different stages of the production processes. The lab has frequent personnel changes and a lot of interaction with coworkers.

in austin tx
rich in resources, materialwise or human powerwise
OK but slow

I definitely put 110% into both of the positions I held at Life Technologies. Though the hours were long, I enjoyed developing different strategies to work smarter not harder. I also learned to become much more efficient by understanding who on the team possessed which strengths, including myself, and building upon those. The hardest part of my most – more...  recent position was deciding which tasks to delegate and to whom, and the most enjoyable part was seeing those I had trained or influenced in one way or another, succeed. – less

This company was very technologically ahead of it's time when I worked with
this group. I enjoyed working with the people in the legal area
because it was very detailed work and many different situations
to work on at times. I supported the Legal Secretaries and the Vice President
in New Projects as well as existing Patent areas. I scheduled meeting – more...  rooms,
did FedEX and presentations based on faxed information from Managers.

Everyone that I worked with on a daily basis was pleasant and professional.
The work involved accounting, editing, slides for speeches and meetings, etc.
and travel as well as PowerPoint presentations to Europe because of travel
locations for the Executives and their itineraries. – less

Life Technologies was a good company that I worked 10yrs for the management was great, helpful, and I was able to move up in the company. The company did a lot for their employees.

poor training . uses temps mostly. not a good experience. Nothing good to say about my time there.

I like working for Life Technologies. They pay good salary. Some career development was provided.

The benefits are no longer good anymore, but the people and the culture are great!

Life Technologies is the combination of Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems. The Invitrogen management and culture were overlaid onto the existing AB business. The new company seems more interested in Marketing than Technology. Most top technologists were RIF'd or left the business. Qualilty of AB products has significantly dropped.