MolDev is a life sciences instrument company focused on automating drug discovery and development processes.
Pros
The location in Silicon Valley offers exposure to new technologies and great networking opportunities. The engineering team was competent and dedicated. The atmosphere was relatively low stress for a high tech firm. If you like a highly structured environment with lots of accountability this could be a good place to work.
Cons
MolDev, a Danaher company, is extremely process focused and requires metrics for every activity. These metrics are monitored often on a weekly or daily basis. This necessarily curtails creativity and creates a lot of reporting overhead. It is very short-term focused in its product development and the vast majority of projects are incremental improvements or reverse engineering competitors products. Danaher itself is very risk adverse and stays away from new, unproven technologies or "leading the wave" type products. This is a poor environment for creative scientists and engineers who want to develop exciting new products incorporating the latest and greatest technologies. Danaher also focuses on Process over People and runs Kaizen events to improve process efficiency. One of the drawbacks for employees is that efficiency increases often can be accompanied by employee reductions.