Poor leadership, chaotic, immature, and very political
Pros
- Freedom to work from home. - Some of the hires in the past year are seasoned and experienced, with strong business acumen. Unfortunately, they are not enough to overcome some entrenched issues (see below). - Standing desks.
Cons
Seriously think twice if you are considering accepting a job here. The issues are abundant: - Leadership is not aligned. Often they work at cross-purposes. - Chaos and fire drills resulting in minimal business impact: you work on one project for a few weeks, then the direction changes, and changes again, with a fairly continuous stream of fire drills. At least a third of the time, the initiative goes nowhere - because there wasn't alignment at a senior leadership level, or the initiative wasn't well thought through, or it never really made sense to begin with. Which makes the crazy fire drills particularly demoralizing. - I witnessed several investment decisions that were not based on facts or business cases. If you are used to (and welcome) an environment that emphasizes fact-based decisions, you will not fit in. - For a $500 million public company it is surprisingly immature in business process. - A weak HR department that doesn't address personnel issues and lacks maturity. Also, regarding HR, note the many suspiciously fake Glassdoor reviews. - The company is still led by the founders. Medidata could do better if more seasoned leaders were put into place, IMHO.