Good while it lasted - Senior Research Associate Aduro BioTech Employee Review

Smart people and compassionate leadership

None really. They were not afraid to take on a big challenge.

holiday shutdown, flexible working hours (working from home)

I heard this company used to be a good company to work for but not anymore. Horrible HR (they only have one HR lady now): they had two rounds of layoffs in 2019. They would create a meeting invitation from their boss for a staff meeting, but it's really HR there to lay you off. Payroll doesn't know what they're doing, HR is unprofessional. Lack of clinical development experience: clinical programs get delay, bad clinical design, people go in circles to revisit previous decisions, more people have nonclinical/preclinical experience without someone to push the clinical programs forward, some project managers are more interested discussing random topics than keeping timelines Infrastructure: lack of processes, people don't know what they're doing, lack of passion, people are just there until they find their next gig Bureaucracy: there are certain people who are "untouchable," information stays with top level, decisions are driven by personalities not expertise, roles and responsibilities are not clearly defined