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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Vertex has become a company without a soul - Scientist Vertex Pharmaceuticals Employee Review

1.0
Apr 26, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Really smart people work there.

Cons

In 2 words: senior management. The goals are set by senior management and they set unattainable goals and then hold everyone to achieving them. Senior management is out of touch with the workforce. They do not care about people or patients. They are driven by their personal bonuses and corporate profit. There is no loyalty to employees. Everyone is viewed as a replaceable commodity. They like to talk about work place diversity but the executive team is exclusively white, middle aged men. The environment is highly adversarial. Those that want to climb the corporate ladder step on one another to get recognition from senior management.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

-Poor leadership (specifically in the Quality organization). - Leadership does not lead by example - It's not unusual to observe a Quality VP or Sr.director taking screenshots of Teams chats (for CYA?). I question the level of trust (in both directions). This behavior creates a toxic environment. - Quality role scope creep- leadership tries to "own" and/or oversee the activities of other departments outside the scope of their QA responsibility which makes execution of processes cumbersome and, in many cases, non-value added and confusion over responsibility ownership.

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