Toxic and chaotic - Associate Director, Medical Affairs Moderna Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing science and pipeline, very easy to get excited about the products and technology. Very smart people, and when it comes to "boots on the ground" they are for the most part team players who care about one another. Pay and benefits are good. Name recognition opens a lot of doors.

Cons

Toxic leadership that starts at the very top. Yes-men/women are promoted, everyone else either leaves or is forced out. You have to do an inordinate amount of self promotion and positive messaging to do well here, internal forecasts are a mess of everyone lying to themselves and others. There is no personal development or internal promotion, but there is a TON of manufactured urgency and self-inflicted wounds due to everything being done in a hurry. Very few colleagues with tenure past 3 years, and it's not only because the company is growing and hiring (that's what they tell you) - in fact most people either leave, are fired, on go on long-term sick leave due to burnout and stress-related illness after about 2 years. Don't know anyone at this company that isn"t currently job-searching wanting to leave the chaos.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Salary is above industry standard.

Cons

This is by far the most chaotic and dysfunctional organization I have ever been part of, and honestly the worst I've ever heard of. I can't believe how many new employees just hand back their signing bonus and leave. And good for them! The only reason anything gets accomplished in the clinical regulatory space is because the people who really believe in mRNA therapies stick with their therapeutic area and weather the storm of gross incompetence, bullying, and constant running in the wrong direction just because the loudest person in the room is always listened to, and she is never, ever correct. Their recent reorgs saw some of the most talented, experienced, and kind individuals exited by the company. They are thriving in their new positions. This place is NOT worth your sanity, peace, talent, joy, and you ARE going to be bullied and gaslit. All the negative reviews on Glassdoor are on the money. There is no reason to join this organization unless you genuinely have no regard for other employees, are just a ladder climber, and want to make some extra cash and stock options.

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