Good for learning methods, bad for making good money and buying a house on a single income.
Pros
Learning opportunity, room for growth if a novice, Biostat leadership is very nurturing, Biostat coworkers open to help and train. Benefits are absolutely stellar. You won’t find a better benefits package. But it doesn’t make up for the low pay.
Cons
Low pay, very low pay, short ceiling on promotions, experience means little when it comes to leadership opportunities. the leadership that aren’t the Biostatisticians are way too willing to let the Biostatisticians take the fall for their decisions. Biostatisticians are not treated as experts. The processes for promotions and salary raises were never clear and they lost a lot of great Biostatisticians because of that. Diversity seems like lip service there. Asian students were told not to speak their native language even when just talking to each other and the professor who told them that stepped down just for the business side to hire her husband as a Biostatistician.