Moderna reviews

3.2

40% would recommend to a friend

(850 total reviews)
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Stéphane Bancel

46% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Moderna has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 850 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Moderna 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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1.0
Mar 7, 2024

Questionable Senior Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay / benefits and colleagues.

Cons

Senior leadership went behind all middle management and directly made phone calls to hundreds of employees to let them know their time with the company was over - middle management found out from their direct reports. I've been a part of restructuring several times with different companies and this is the coldest I've ever seen a restructuring done. I understand there might be a need to reduce headcount, but the manner in which senior leadership did this cut is disgusting. They talk about open communication and transparency and then pull something like this. Not one word to people leaders below them - no one knew they were going to lose employees until the employees told their direct managers. Aside from this mafia-style senior leadership - it is not spoken, but expected that you work like a dog. The organization as a whole is chaotic and there is no RACI - often times even tenured employees are left scratching their heads to know who to turn to with a problem.

3.0
Dec 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The strength of Moderna is in the potential of the technology that we are working on. For the most part the people working in the lab make it easier to deal with some of the stress and pressure thrown at the research staff by upper management.

Cons

The poor planning and the changing of experiments and goals on the fly makes it extremely difficult at times to execute the proper experiments. There is also a sense of disrespect towards the research associates by upper management. The feeling is that they do not care about our personal time and our personal obligations outside of the Moderna building. This has lead to a turn style type turnover in employees. Some of the turnover was a good thing for the company as it removed some of the excess baggage; however, there also has been very skilled people who have left the company and that can not happen if Moderna is going to be succesful.

2.0
Apr 4, 2024

Toxic working culture and poor leadership by senior management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the pipelines are exciting, and the salary is generally above average

Cons

The company keeps changing its strategies and direction. There is no long-term development for employees, and employees can lose jobs overnight here. Senior leaders are over-confident and don't want to hear different opinions.

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