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CRISPR Therapeutics

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Great Science, Bad Advancement and Compensation - Research Associate II CRISPR Therapeutics Employee Review

2.0
Dec 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If you're looking for a place to gain a lot of valuable experience, it's great. They are definitely leaders in the gene therapy space and the science is awesome. If you're a student fresh out of school or someone who's just finished their post-doc, it's an ideal place to get into biotech.

Cons

I was verbally offered a SRA position with a normal median salary, which was fine. When I got the written offer, it was a title lower and the pay was significantly less. The problem was that I had already turned down a different offer, so I was stuck with what they gave me. I tried negotiating, but the HR rep barely budged. In my first 2.5 months, 5 people in my department quit. All of them stated their reasons for leaving were burnout, pay, title, and growth problems. Advancement is painfully slow, so you'll need to be happy with the title you hire in with for a while.

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Cons

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Pros

Benefits are good and lunch is subsidized. There are interesting projects and smart people working on them, the work itself isn’t the problem.

Cons

Executive pay is disconnected from company performance. Chronic understaffing has created unsustainable workloads with no relief in sight, and work-life balance is essentially nonexistent. Execs have created a surveillance and monitoring culture that has undermined trust and psychological safety across the organization. For a company that claims to be an innovation and science leader, there is no dedicated head of research which raises real questions about where this company is actually headed. Strategy shifts constantly with little to no communication to the people keeping it afloat.

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