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Flagship Pioneering

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Flagship Pioneering reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(106 total reviews)
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Noubar Afeyan

81% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Flagship Pioneering has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flagship Pioneering employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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106 reviews
5.0
May 11, 2018

Challenging and Innovative Work Environment

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Pros

Flagship Pioneering is a place that fosters your professional growth, your agility as an employee and challenges you to step outside the box. Every day I come to work, I am mentally stimulated by not only the scientific work being done, but by my peers and superiors. What makes this place great is the people! Everyone is so helpful, friendly and care about your overall well-being even outside of the work place.

Cons

With any fast-growing company there are some growing pains, but nothing out of the ordinary or to be concerned about. As someone who is looking at process design and efficiency, I can say things are looking up and will only get better. They have already improved immensely since I joined and continue to move in the right direction.

5.0
May 10, 2018
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I love coming to work every day and being surrounded by brilliant, driven people who are inventing and cultivating cutting edge science to solve some of the world’s big problems in human health and sustainability. I chose Flagship Pioneering over another attractive (and prestigious) job offer in Boston for which I’d been interviewing for the better part of a year. I do not regret my choice. (The interviews-to-offer process for me at FP was professional, transparent, and expedient). The staff is pretty diverse from a gender and international perspective and becoming even more so as it grows. FP is quite generous and has the best benefits of anywhere I’ve worked in my 20-year career. Culturally speaking, the work ethic is strong as you would expect at a place where people are crazy smart and ambitious, yet the culture is collegial and friendly. I consider it a privilege to work here. It’s a great place to “do science” and also “do good.” It’s a place that attracts people who aren’t in it just to make money. If that jibes with your values, then you will be quite happy working here.

Cons

Arguably this isn't even a con but: Potential to gain the "Flagship fifteen" as the company feeds the staff quite a lot!

1.0
Jan 9, 2018

Toxic secretive culture

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Pros

100% medical, onsite parking, free food to keep employees working

Cons

Management with little to no experience who cover for each other and can't keep up with their own lies

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