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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,271 total reviews)
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Reshma Kewalramani

87% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,271 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vertex Pharmaceuticals 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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1K reviews
2.0
Jul 15, 2026

Leadership needs huge improvement

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Pros

-Compensation -Benefits -Smart and capable co-workers make the day to day easier to navigate

Cons

-Poor leadership (specifically in the Quality organization). - Leadership does not lead by example - It's not unusual to observe a Quality VP or Sr.director taking screenshots of Teams chats (for CYA?). I question the level of trust (in both directions). This behavior creates a toxic environment. - Quality role scope creep- leadership tries to "own" and/or oversee the activities of other departments outside the scope of their QA responsibility which makes execution of processes cumbersome and, in many cases, non-value added and confusion over responsibility ownership.

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