Great people not always provided the best opportunity that reflects their experience and education. Lack of culture of q
Pros
Everyone is working multiple jobs (compared to working in big pharma where people work in silos). You have to manage your own time but if the opportunity is embraced, you can really learn a lot about the Pharma business because all of the teams are integrated for product development, filing and commercialization projects. The work from home/time off is very flexible but varies depending on your supervisor.
Cons
The culture of Quality is lacking. The quality team has to fight to keep quality and compliance in mind during the development process. This causes Quality to look like they are holding back time lines and costing projects more money but because Quality review and/or comments were not factored in, it does cause headaches and a push to avoid quality oversight by non-quality teams by skipping the review process. The non-quality teams do not understand the downstream impact. Onboarding is very unorganized. The team you will be working with doesn’t always know you are showing up. Training is not ready for you and depending on your team’s travel schedule, you will not be fully trained to perform your job duties for many months. The HR team in the US is strongly influenced by the team in India so they are much more likely to pull someone from India for a position then to promote or move a current associate in the US laterally who is just as qualified. I have recommended multiple people for jobs through the designated HR process and the HR team lost/overlooked paperwork in one case, had assumed someone was over qualified and would not accept the salary in another case and in the 3rd case they had someone in mind before posting the position.
