Co-op - Computational Protein Design Co-op Moderna Employee Review

Great work culture, people are hard-working and responsive.

No benefits as a contractor (no PTO, stock)

The science is promising. There are a large number of disease areas where the company is making or can make a real impact because of the flexibility of the mRNA platform.

Up through a high level, management and even entry level employees play self preservation games. They passionately brown nose and embrace certain initiatives while fully ignoring meticulous or unglamorous operational work which is still highly critical. These people then form a cartel and are promoted. If you care about such issues, you’ll have to manage way up to resolve them and will not be rewarded for it. No communication across departments due to turf wars. The outcome is that everyone is worse off.