Pros
1. It's a pharmaceutical company. There aren't many of these in northwest Indiana. 2. It's in northwest Indiana. For Hoosiers, its a much shorter commute than to Chicago. 3. Their product pipeline is exciting. Warning: their commercial business is limited to ONE product line. But the delivery of the product is very exciting: you place a medicated strip in your mouth and it disolves into your bloodstream. This may get you excited about working here, but DON"T do it. Not worth it. Wait until a real company buys them out and encourages the top dogs to leave with a handsome monetary incentive.
Cons
1. Top leadership is in New Jersey. They don't know the facts. They get to hear only what is told to them by a select few who happen to be greasy, unethical cowards who have, unfortunately, learned to become very politically savvy. (Watch Out! You may be their next scape goat.) 2. Manufacturing is VERY INEFFICIENT. This, I think, is the root of all evil at MonoSol RX. All groups supporting manufacture of products is EXTREMELY WEAK (operations, engineering, maintenance, R&D, product transfer, training, human resources, technical services and quality). 3. When in doubt, DEFLECT! Instead of identifying real project improvements within their own groups, the department leaders deflect the negative attention onto a scape goat. For example, say you had 30 hours of downtime last week mostly due to the use of non-optimized process parameters, machine breakdowns with no replacement parts in stock, and operator delays and errors. Let's also say that 2 of those hours (6.7%) were due to the lack of organization by manufacturing supervisors and delays due to excessive quality inspections. 30 hours of downtime is a lot of downtime! Well, guess who the Portage top dogs want to put on final written warning? Technical Transfer / Engineering, right? No. Maintenance? No. Operations? Training? No & No. They will and have always CONTINUOUSLY attacked with vengence the low hanging fruit - the group that did their job correctly but caused minor delays due to multi-tasking between two manufacturing facilities. This, my friends, did not only happen when I worked here, but also for YEARS before. See #4 below. 4. Manufacturing is SO BAD that instead of initiating improvements in that area, manufacturing required a QUALITY counterpart to serve as back-up for their Manufacturing Supervisor. The Quality Supervisor is ultimately responsible for the performance of operations, and NOT the Manufacturing Supervisor to which the employees directly report into. Yes, my friends, the Quality group must prevent all issues, optimize all issues, remediate all issues -- and without any delays. With an inefficient company such as MonoSol RX, there is no room for delays by Quality. 5. OMG - I forgot to mention that if you are hired to be an operator or supervisor, say goodbye to LIFE. They have been working 7 days a week, EVERY WEEK, for almost 2 years now. Ask them about their "5 day workweek" -- they will tell you "we work 5 days a week, plus 2 on the weekends". They laugh about it, but it's no joke, people. This is MANDATORY overtime. And if you are unfortunate enough to be a salaried employee (supervisor), you DON'T get paid for the extra hours. (Don't listen to their spin - they'll spin it every which way - it's a fact.) 6. It makes sense that the Quality group has had ~20 changes in top leadership in the last 9 years, right? There would be MUCH more if you included the Quality supervisors? Who could be successful in a company designed specifically and intentionally to ruin you? Deming and Juran are rolling over in their graves. 7. Lastly, they cultivate a culture of fear. Operators and supervisors are so scared to make a mistake & get fired, supervisors are expected to implement this culture of fear by writing operators up for mistakes that could easily be justified as a deficiency in the process or procedure. Instead of owning up to a mistake, people point fingers to DEFLECT! Why wouldn't they? That's how they survive in a culture of fear.