Advarra Reviews

Main Cons: - Management at Advarra is toxic. They are all talk and no action. Advarra values its employees from the top down, prioritizing the needs of ELTs and high-level managers over the needs/feedback of their direct reports. - Advarra offers an annual "anonymous" employee survey for company-wide feedback. This survey is NOT anonymous - managers with 5 or more direct reports see their direct reports' answers "anonymously," but with only 5 people on a team, it is very easy to see who wrote what. - HR totes pay transparency but refuses to share pay bands with employees. This is because they underpay everyone and there are huge pay disparities within teams. - The work is highly repetitive and there is very little career pathing (although HR will tell you there is). Get ready to wait 2+ years for a promotion, even if you excel on your team. Very little value is placed on high performance (again, HR will say otherwise, but no action is taken). - There is no real action being taken to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The DE&I committee is constantly at a standstill because HR leaders and ELTs say no to every initiative for fear that Advarra is "not ready" and they don't want to make people "uncomfortable." Education on white fragility would be beneficial for all managers and ELTs. - Advarra is based out of Maryland, with many employees in Ohio. They pay based on the cost of living in those states... so if you live in a city with a higher cost of living than Cincinnati or Columbus, Maryland be prepared to get underpaid.

This place was two companies that "merged" to make Advarra but really one took over the other. Then Advarra acquired another company. There is a very clear hierarchy and if you are not from the 'parent company' it is very clear you don't matter. There is a ton of micromanagement and absolutely zero support for staff. Most managers care and want to provide support but they have no power or ability to change anything. The culture here is not great, no real teamwork and no sense from any corporate leadership that they want to improve. Definetly not a customer focused culture. Poor process management and there are very few SOPs and almost no training. Work/life balance isn't great although you can work from home.