low morale overshadows any promising science - Anonymous employee Vertex Pharmaceuticals Employee Review

(VCGT specific) toxic culture of senior leadership setting unrealistic expectations/timelines and middle management working their teams into the ground to try to reach those goals employees regularly expected to do the work of at least 3 people senior leadership micromanaging lab operations very low morale -- no sense of ownership over projects and no level-appropriate autonomy if below the director level, yet thrown under the bus when things go wrong. On multiple occasions, junior team members would leave rooms in tears because of the unprofessional way they had been treated by managers. Uneven standards in promotions. Tactless messaging to the company from executive-level individuals regarding how many hours we were being expected to work to meet unrealistic timelines