Company portrait


The spirit of a start-up. The experience of an established biotech. Ichnos (‘ik-noz) Sciences—a name taken from an ancient Greek word for “footprint”—is shifting how the world thinks about innovation in medicine. With a holistic approach to the research, discovery, and development of break...

Reviews


2.7 ★

Employees (0)

Applicants (0)

5 stars11
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1 star17

Translated from French

11 June 2020

Current employee

Negative corporate culture

What works well?

-The dishwashers and the coffee machines most of the time. -Some talented people overexploited by incompetent ones

What could be improved?

Ichnos Sciences as an innovative biotech has managed to collect and gather all the bad aspects from Industry and Academia. The blaming culture, threats, micromanagement, bullying, lies, nepotism lead to a very toxic working atmosphere. Management is ruling by fear, the focus is made on business cont...

Translated from French

29 July 2020

HR Manager

Thank you for providing input regarding your experience working at Ichnos. We are in the process of transforming our culture and strive to foster an environment where innovation and talent are rewarded. We have suggestion boxes in all of our Switzerland locations and invite you to share (anonymously...

26 November 2020

Current employee

The first biotech company specialized on timelines only

What works well?

Nothing is working well, just the happiness of people when they leave their workplace at the end of the day...

What could be improved?

A lot of things have to be improved, may be everything in fact. First HR people can learn to communicate efficiently with the employees in place of posting fake positive comments on Jobup and taking time also to answer to these fake comments. Leadership team is not able to lead people, just organizi...

Translated from French

08 November 2020

Current employee

Horrible atmosphere

What works well?

Nice colleagues, a lot of great scientists in the operational teams, but not in the leadership team. Nice place to work inLausanne (Biopole). Most of the competent people are applying elsewhere or even thinking to create their own company.

What could be improved?

Everything has been said in most of the comments. (the oldest ones, not the recent ones written by Human Ressources Team). Everything should be improved. Managers are not supporting their teams, are not taking their responsibilities. Poor Leadership team; bad communication, not competent, lack of ho...