14 Feb 2016
Terrific early stage diagnostics company
Anonymous employee
Applied Proteomics Reviews
1.9
21% would recommend to a friend
Peter Klemm
Not enough data to show CEO approval
21% positive business outlook
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4.0
7 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Strong team, great product, potential to disrupt space. Team is committed to changing healthcare. CEO recently left and the rest of the executive team is moving company forward with momentum.
Cons
Vision wasn't clear but improving. Certain groups not as efficient as others. High turnover but management is committed to improving this
3.0
17 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Very smart, earnest, and hardworking employees who excel in their field of bioinformatics, biostatistics, software engineering, and immunoassay characterization and optimization. Leadership has an ambitious and inspiring vision that will help change the scope of medical diagnostics. C-level executives are experienced and confident in their fund-raising abilities, which creates positive morale, a sense of faith and stability for the company. Sample collection library is awe-inspiring; implicating a promising future into what this company can do. Facilities management and IT infrastructure are always helpful and available, and are excellent at putting out the figurative fires. Luckily, no literal fires have occurred but I’m sure they would be good at putting those out too. Laboratory personnel are intelligent, resourceful, and motivated individuals who work extraordinarily well as a team. They undoubtedly deserve more credit and respect than they seek or are given. Ample lunches, snacks and drinks are supplied in the company’s break rooms, with catered lunches every Wednesday. Don’t worry, unlike what a previous review states, Kool-Aid was never supplied.
Cons
Some employees and managers pride themselves on expressing how stressed and busy they are; and, won’t take you seriously unless you are also at that level of anxiety. Questionable hires, that were made despite ubiquitous negative feedback during the interviewing process, have led to much needless drama, instability and negatively-inspired turnover. Human Resource is very active during the onboarding and outboarding, but nearly nonexistent in between. Job descriptions and guidelines can only be implied; therefore, objective meritocracy does not exist. Subjective comparisons to favorited employees seems to be the only true metric for successful professional growth. Adversity and impatience are traits that are encouraged by management when dealing with any issues internally or externally. During my time, interdepartmental communication seemed to only occur at the Research Associate and Scientist level; senior scientists and directors seem to avoid conversation with each other as much as possible.
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