Aitia reviews

2.9

40% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)
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Colin Hill

37% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Aitia has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Aitia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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63 reviews
2.0
Feb 6, 2019

Disappointing leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company works with big pharmaceuticals and healthcare leads on trending areas.

Cons

The leaders of the company don’t understand what they are good at, but pursues unrealistic goals and change them frequently. The leadership doesn’t have good management skills. As an employee, you don’t feel the support or trust from upper management. The company also has a high turnover rate. They hire a lot of advisors and upper management roles, but it never made improvement to the company. When the company goal changes, people in a few teams easily get laid off.

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Aitia Response
6y
Thank you for providing your feedback. The company has made a change from research to a combination of research and commercial products. This can give the appearance of goals changing rapidly, but in a commercial market, the business can often dictates these changes. We want to wish you luck in your future endeavors.
2.0
Apr 20, 2016

Startup, trying to redefine itself.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The culture is reasonable, and there is a lot of smart very knowledgeable people there. IT team is very strong. CFO is a great guy, same can be said about majority of company leadership. They work hard and know their subject matter areas very well. The pay and benefits are good.

Cons

I would have to agree with another reviewer - CEO is the weakest link in company leadership. He is not well organized, does not have a good staffing plan and is not good with planning in general. He comes across as arrogant and condescending. Turnover rate is pretty high. Company hires a number of people for various roles, including management. Sometimes after months of trying to fill a position and finding the right people they get hired, only to be laid off a few months later. This happened recently to 1 VP and 2 Directors. I'm not even talking about executive assistants, I think there has been like 6+ of them in the last few months, they tend to stay under a month each. New office space on Broadway is on the small side, there is a lack of conference rooms and restroom facilities. If you are a male - be ready to stand in line to use the toilet on a regular basis. Transparency is lacking, until very recently there was not even a company org chart published. So if you are a research scientist - this may be a good place to work, but for supporting roles, especially management - I would recommend avoiding this company.

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Aitia Response
6y
Thank you for your input, we appreciate your feedback. Thank you for recognizing the positive cultural aspects of GNS and the intelligent team of people who work here. As a company redefines itself, leadership is often faced with difficult decisions. Many times, this can cause employees to feel uninformed. However, we do our best to communicate as much as possible through frequent company-wide meetings, and by answering any employee questions and concerns in a clear and transparent way. Thanks again for your feedback. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
1.0
Jun 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Some really smart people have worked there over the years.

Cons

CEO is narcissistic and changes strategy hourly. You make one mistake (according to his standard only), and you are 'marked' and shortly gone. There is a reason the company is a 20+ year "start up". Anyone wanting to go there or invest should ask about employee turnover and ask for a demo of their technology. Get facts before making your decision.

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Aitia Response
3y
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry that you feel this way. As you are well aware, the field of AI in biomedicine is rapidly evolving. It is the CEO’s job to understand the changing landscape and evolve the company’s strategy accordingly. We are fortunate that we have a CEO with that vision. And it is a vision that has stayed focused on a specific breakthrough technology for more than a decade. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
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