IPSEN reviews

Senior management without knowledge of how to run a company. Bullying and focus on themselves make employees silent. Employees frightened and if you don’t fit in managed out . Dysfunctional and poorly managed.

- 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.