Pros
In spite of the title, I gave the company 3 stars because a new CEO starts March 1st, 2019. The primary fault of the previous CEO was his tolerance for the despotic behavior of certain members of senior management, and its negative impact on company culture, retention, and performance. The Board’s decision to replace the CEO was a necessary step that is likely to have immediate impact by requiring the bad actors of senior management to shape up or get left behind, as the new CEO seems to have an ethical and moral framework that won’t tolerate the despotic culture that certain members of senior management have used to hold back and discourage entire portions of their own sections of the of the organization
Cons
Certain members of senior management have tyrannically enforced a culture whereby the company’s positive value of following the science is warped to the despotic behavior of excluding those not in a scientist role whenever and wherever possible, by promoting their friends into roles that they are unqualified for, micromanaging project execution, and the ruthless holding back those deserving of promotions in apparent spite. These member of senior management have a plethora of HR complaints against them yet refuse to change their behavior in a meaningful way, apparently because they actually believe they are doing nothing wrong and are very happy with the despot that they’ve created for themselves.