QIAGEN is an excellent place to get a professional experience.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Colleagues from the department are nice and friendly. If you struggle with some tasks and don't know something - they are always there for you to help. This allows an intern to learn and become a part of the company quicker.
Also, I found no problems communicating with other departments.
The employees are from all over the world, that's why intercultural and gender equality is the key of QIAGEN.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
It seems to be hard to make a career in the company and move higher from one position to another. The horizontal movement - between departments - is simple, but if you want from an assistant's position to become someone else - it might take really long. The company has quite a strict structure.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
As an intern, I felt that others trust me in what I am doing by giving responsible, long-term tasks. However, despite the importance of your work's result, most of the time I was more like an assistant for others.
In my opinion, the company could use way more benefits of young, 'fresh' colleagues, who come from the outside, by giving them more freedom on implementing their own ideas. So that in the end an intern or a new employee would be not only the 'additional hands' but a real teammate. This would also give more motivation for the intern to stay in the company to make a career.