Overloaded with administrative requirements. - Contractor Technical Writer PerkinElmer Employee Review

1.0
Apr 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

This company pays the local going hourly rate.

Cons

As a OneSource technical writer at Gilead, Foster City, CA, on a short-term contract I was overloaded with administrative requirements like massive irrelevant required training to be fulfilled before even reporting to work. Too many managers, one from PE (part time onsite), 3 from Gilead, & no direction at all from the Gilead client created a disfunctional job.

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Pros

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Cons

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