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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Excellent Company but, be aware..... - Anonymous employee Vertex Pharmaceuticals Employee Review

3.0
Mar 6, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Pipeline, innovation, good benefits and salaries, intelligent people, incredibly respected from scientific community, lots of opportunities for growth and development, encourages open communication but, not sure they "hear it", clean reputation, tons of excitement about the future

Cons

New commercial team spends money like water. Too many "directors", everyone around here has a director title but, nowhere is their job description so it is hard to know who to go to for what. Top heavy and too many field managers, already seems like same old big brother big pharma company. Way too much HR time and money spent checking up on their field team and has already created and environment of fear (quotas, reach & freq)which is the death sentence for motivation and success of a sales team. You hired the right people with tons of experience, why the hyper management? Forget seeing your wife and kids until next year, if you're single that'll be 2 years!

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