Not your best pneumococcal vaccine start-up in the Bay Area - Associate Scientist I Vaxcyte Employee Review

Red flags from virtual interview, to on-site, communication or rather lack of. IT severely lacking as the company IPO'd years ago and SSO only starting to implemented. Many departments and integrated systems should be established already with the amount of deadlines being so insurmountable behind, going from feasibility to R&D to certification and commercialization. Poor management Multiple pipelines failing because of too much ambition A lot of tension between Quality and R&D, and other departments to the point the meetings are hostile Exclusion of information and outsources many services Reliant on a lot of vendors and very weak in-house infrastructure