Great Colleagues, disconnected management - Associate Principal Scientist AstraZeneca Employee Review

4.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great salary, perks, colleagues, work environment, location. My line and departmental managers are keen to listen to problems, and are overall supportive

Cons

The senior management team have their head in the clouds, demanding faster and faster deliveries without any knowledge of what they are asking for. This is leading to less and less work being done on each project to get it into clinical trials and using resources in a very inefficient way to deliver bad chemistry and bad control strategy to set up a project to either fail or make the rest of development a stressful series of firefighting to fix what we should have been given time to develop before a candidate reaches the clinic. Its stupid and is being driven by the desire to satisfy shareholders rather than science

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