Toxic, sweatshop company - Medical Reviewer/Scientific Writer PharmaReview Employee Review

1.0
14 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great example of what a career shouldn't look like! But also good introduction to the medical/pharmaceutical regulatory industry. Nice offices to create smoke and distract from toxic underlying culture created by management.

Cons

Open plan office does not create a safe space for teams to interact and individuals constantly feel monitored in addition to disruptive loud and obnoxious corporate calls. Reminiscent of school exam conditions. Managers demand that employees WFH keep cameras on at all times during meetings in order to monitor their attention. Trickle-down bullying from management through team leaders using "carrot and stick" fake motivational approach. Favouritism shown to naive employees who suck up to management, creating a rat-race environment. Ingenuine job titles describing reviewers as potential "medical writers" to attract a pool of candidates seeking actual content-generating roles only to carry out mundane referencing tasks after the promise of industry equivalent pay that never comes. Fraudulent copy approval processes. Efforts to employ diverse employees to check all the boxes are in vain due to cultural ignorance/insensitivity/outdated approaches of management. Persistent inflammatory comments that are racially/homophobic/ethnically/generationally driven and triggering under the guise of indifference or ignorance. No bonuses awarded to employees despite continued acquisition of new business clients and exponentially increasing workloads, often to the detriment of the quality of service delivered. This is in addition to low renumeration and the bare government minimum annual leave.

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1.0
18 Mar 2024
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Pros

Honestly can't think of a positive here.

Cons

CEO was everything said online... do with that what you may. Promotion was by kissing butt and bullying, not by merit.

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3.0
22 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good place to get a crash course in the reviewer world. Spend a year or two here and your reviewing skills will be very applicable elsewhere. If you're lucky you may be put in a team that look out for each other and try to help often.

Cons

Sink or swim environment. A range of toxic management over the years. Insane workload. Some teams just did not pull their weight and you can pick up their pieces sometimes. A lot of the negative reviews in the past are not inaccurate. May have got better since though.

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