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CRISPR Therapeutics

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No proper direction - Senior Research Associate CRISPR Therapeutics Employee Review

3.0
Mar 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Internal team relationships are well knit. Provides good benefits such as lunch subsidiary, summer and winter shutdowns. Good immigration support.

Cons

Too strict on open space work environment. Mandatory on-site presence enforced for 5 days/week with minimal flexibility despite going through peak years at high performance levels in remote and hybrid settings. No proper strategy for performance reviews. Promotions seem to happen mainly based on tenure rather than YTY performance. Company too focused on building pipelines rather than investing in securing a spot in the commercial market, which calls for constant organizational rearrangement. This makes yearly goals difficult to plan for and execute. Thereby making employee career development dependent on sheer luck instead of proactive planning. Expects continued development despite significant staff reduction and prolonged hiring freeze (over several years) for key functional positions.

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CRISPR Therapeutics Response
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Thank you for providing feedback. We are happy to hear you enjoy working with your team and appreciate our benefit offerings. COVID represented an unusual time that saw unique ways of working to ensure minimal exposure for employees . We appreciated you pivoting to a new way of working during COVID, and we understand that a full return to the office can present new challenges. We would encourage you to discuss these specifics with your functional leader, manager and/or HR. We have focused on building a robust pipeline to deliver potentially transformational medicine to patients across disease areas. As we continue to evolve and focus on innovation for patients, we recognize this can lead to changes, and we structure and refine goals and timelines to meet these business needs. We are thankful for your continued contributions. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your functional leader, manager and/or HR to provide further feedback.

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Pros

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