Vantaggi
Great co-workers, at least the one's I still know from the Gen-Probe days. Of the one's I have met that work for Hologic/Cytic, most of them seem caring too. Customer focus is important.
Svantaggi
Loss of Gen-Probe bonuses and perks like FSE of the year awarded trips and yearly meetings. Changes in company car program and increased health care costs, I estimated at least a $10-15,000 annual loss in wages due to these changes. Loss of "family feel" with a small company. Now it is all corporate attitude and giving less to the employee, and caring less about the employee, we are just the no-name worker bees now. Unsure if I will eventually lose my job due to the acquisition. Territories are merging and I will no longer have a Gen-Probe manager. My new manager does not know the Gen-Probe products, so will not really understand my job. Also, I fear he will show favoritism towards his own Hologic/Cytyc employees. Gen-Probe stock was high, Hologic stock is so much lower. Gen-Probe was doing great financially as a stand-alone company, now we are merged with a company that has a low profit margin. We used to get great pay raises at Gen-Probe, now we get next to nothing with Hologic.