Pros
Some of the most amazing, talented peers I have ever met in my career, sadly also got let go when I did. Opportunities for immense growth and innovation only to get bogged down by layers of indecisive “leaders” with vague envisions. My salary was well above the average salary for this type of role which gives you insight to this company’s overspending (LOTS of unnecessary “on-sites”)
Cons
Where do I even begin? The flexibility of working remote comes with its benefits, but this company abused this option. Committed workers were often working 10-12 hours, often missing meals and time spent with loved ones or for oneself. The back to back meetings were superfluous, often a call of whoever could fit the most buzzwords the loudest. We’d be lucky to “get 2 minutes back of our time”. Great talent was often over utilized and under-appreciated. Simply put, if you were good at something, now you have to do all of it. Massive overselling and overpromising to clients with minimal mitigation plans in place to resource and execute. No software is perfect, but for a software company to forego quality on a clinical trial platform is a massive nightmare. Software folks with little to no clinical trial experience developing tools and software to be used in clinical trials. With these broken tools, everyone from pre-sales to design to implementation to quality was affected. Bugs often meant you couldn’t get your work done and then no one knew how to fix it. I was so severely burnt out when I got let go, I decided I never wanted to work in this industry again. Imagine a devoted hardworking employee coldly disconnected from Slack/zoom/email with no time to say goodbyes is heartless. Good thing they encouraged you to use your personal cell phone device as a means of communication. For a company that boasts inclusivity, feminism and “disruption” for innovation, it was quite the opposite. Obvious favoritism was often played by the “boys’ club”, it was always a matter of who was friends with who.