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Too Many Politics - Anonymous employee Vertex Pharmaceuticals Employee Review

1.0
May 10, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office in the seaport

Cons

Too many politics. Promotions seem to often be based on reasons that have nothing to do with job performance or qualifications. If you get on the wrong side of someone, you are in trouble and need to quit or get fired, because you aren't moving up.

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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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