Great work/life balance, very friendly people, exposure opprotunities to various aras of drug development industry - Senior Manager Celerion Employee Review

3.0
Apr 11, 2014
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Pros

This is a CRO, so within Clinical Pharmacolpgy Sciences (CPS) group there are lots of opporunities to work with differnt small or large pharma or biotech. Get lots of exposure to innovative trial designs across differnt therapeutic areas. Group is split into 4 cross-functional teams and some focus on a few core therapeutic areas while others on specific market segment (i.e. small biotech). Staff is very friendly, and there are telecommuting opporunities, even at higher management level (i.e. Director).

Cons

Advancement opportunities are limited and current stanrting salaries tend to be low. Mangement prefers to hire people with less experience for less money and train them on the job. Because of location of main office in NE, there are no other opportunities in the area, so people tend to stay for decades, and management has attitude that most employees are "low risk for leaving". Once classified as such, the only opportunity for advancement is through showing proof of a better job offer somewhere else.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Really decent benefits ,GRATE Facilities ( Building Maintiance) Supervisor, GRATE Director that is in charge at out 2 Tempe properties! I love the company work environment

Cons

My interview and job offer were around the first of the month, I was told by HR That My start date would be as soon as I was able to accept the job offer and once my background check came back. I was called back a few minutes later and asked if I could start almost 2 weeks later........Unknowing that my start date was the last day of the facilities tech's that I was replacing. So I LITERALLY GOT 2 1/2 hours on a job that has Weekly, Monthly, Quartly, Semi annual and annual inspections on some appliances, Systems and areas that I was and am not familiar with or that Vendors were called in for at all the other facilities that I work for in all the yeaars I have done maintaince for in the past. So I have to ask questions ALL the time because I did not receive a proper 2 week training period, Why I was hired this way I do not know but feel I was setup for failure and am under constiant stress, and feel like a TOTAL failure because I am running behind 100% of the time. I take care of my 80 year old father who has onset dementia when I am not at work. So no real training and being behind all the time has taken its toll on me mentally and physically. ( This has only been MY PERSONAL exp. I am told IT'S NOT COMMON practice )

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Serves as a decent place to get baseline industry experience on your resume before moving elsewhere.The direct team leads and peer-level colleagues are understanding and pleasant to work with.

Cons

Client-facing demands combined with aggressive study timelines often lead to heavy workloads and long hours.Resourcing can be tight, meaning PMs frequently have to act as both strategic leaders and administrative coordinators. Quarterly updates are disconnected always touting quarter after quarter/ year after year revenue records while running their staff into burnout with the mentality of less is more or better yet "scalability"

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