IPSEN reviews

- Career development: on paper performance appraisal system with career development plan. In reality communication from management team members is that the blunt reality of getting ahead in this company is not doing your work well, solving issues or working hard. Instead you are encouraged to engage in politics - there is truth to this statement, halo and horn effects are at an extreme scale in this company. Of course every company has this but had never seen this extreme in my career spanning twenty years. - IT: company appears to invest in many systems which are good tools but poor implementation simply means they remain unknown/unused, or you are forced to use terribly inefficient and limiting systems that are not value-adding or a good use of time. - Be prepared to work hard and long hours to get things done, often covering for incompetent peers who neglects their duties, only to watch them get ahead because they have been busy engaging in rah-rah while you had your head down working. - processes are often not clear and cumbersome. There is talk of agility in business so let’s hope that translates to real change.

I can write a book for this company.. terrible management without planning of any resources, hire people with high hopes who soon realize after joining that it is a deep hole topped with french culture. Clinical operations dept is under resourced and over worked. Noone wants to stick around because of the bossy culture. There is no respect for each other in this hierarchical model. French office staff technically doesn’t do much except responding to emails after months... Clinical operations team have to take on variety of tasks from purchasing, QA, finance, etc. No team culture or spirit. Everyone is cutting each other to get things done or blame. Highly avoid this place. Even though looks good in first place with nice office in Cambridge, decent pay and benefits— highly avoid because you will want to leave company in next 6 months.