Moderna reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(849 total reviews)
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Stéphane Bancel

45% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Moderna has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 849 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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849 reviews
3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

free lunch maternity leave fancy head quarter building

Cons

Management feels chaotic, with frequent reorganizations that make it difficult to execute long-term initiatives. The company appears to value presentation skills and positive messaging over measurable execution. Employees who consistently solve difficult problems and deliver results are not always recognized as leaders, while those who excel at creating polished presentations and reframing challenges as successes seem to have better promotion opportunities. Science and technology are often managed as operational functions rather than innovation-driven disciplines. Strategic decisions would benefit from greater technical understanding from leadership, especially when setting direction for engineering and scientific teams. Too often, a "fake it till you make it" approach seems to be rewarded over genuine expertise and execution.

1.0
Jun 11, 2026

Need Culture Reset

Recommend
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Pros

The science is promising. There are a large number of disease areas where the company is making or can make a real impact because of the flexibility of the mRNA platform.

Cons

Up through a high level, management and even entry level employees play self preservation games. They passionately brown nose and embrace certain initiatives while fully ignoring meticulous or unglamorous operational work which is still highly critical. These people then form a cartel and are promoted. If you care about such issues, you’ll have to manage way up to resolve them and will not be rewarded for it. No communication across departments due to turf wars. The outcome is that everyone is worse off.

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