Bro Culture, Fratty Vibe, Arrogant Control Freak MDs, Death by Committee, Far Far Too Many Meetings
Pros
- great snacks - remote friendly - fair compensation - Highly ballyhoo'd and arguably innovative business model "moneyball for biotech" but feels like it came out of someone's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference "disrupt the industry" pitchdeck.
Cons
Have to pay $26 a day for parking then expense it every single time. If you want us to come to the office just give us a parking pass please. All hands Town Halls are tedious showboating lead by pharma bros who make dumb jokes about their PhDs (gratuitously calling each other "DOCTOR" and hurr durring amoungst themselves over this perceived hilarity all over again every single time they pass the mike to each other while we all sit there forced to watch them) and bro down with each other exuding fratty vibes in their Patagonia vests and flip flops. Wish leadership was more mature, experienced professionals who have worked in this industry and not fresh grads off the assembly line from Goldman Sachs and Mckinsey. Sitting there makes me feel like I am trapped in a never-ending TED Talk hosted by people who think they invented science because they read the wiki on CRISPR once. It’s all hustle-culture quotes and inspirational fluff about how we're helping patients while the actual work of regulatory filings and quality control is neglected for the delusional belief that they’re "disrupting" healthcare by reinventing things actual scientists have been doing for decades. The fratty culture permeates everything. Meanwhile, Safety, Clinops and Quality are held together with duct tape by a skeleton crew of exhausted professionals silently screaming into their spreadsheets and unresponded emails while trying to explain to Stanford dropouts why regulatory RFIs are not “just suggestions.” This company seems to worship velocity over safety, optics over outcomes. Protocol amendments are treated like support tickets.