Unfortunate leadership for promising startup - Anonymous employee Applied Proteomics Employee Review

Communicative and skilled upper management team. Smart and motivated employees. Lots of promise for this young company.

Direct communication is not for everyone, but has led to a very effective work environment.

This company has some stellar employees. The teamwork and camaraderie is top-notch and the majority of "worker level" employees are incredibly dedicated to quality and operational excellence This company also has some of the standard biotech perks: lunches provided, company parties and activities, etc. Nothing to write home about, but appreciated in making your daily life minutely easier. Attempting to improve historically terrible company culture, though execution is not living up to the words espoused by executive level.

Executive team directs clinical laboratory to deliver questionable results when testing should be halted. "Worker level" personnel are treated as a replaceable commodity. They are asked to work excessive hours with little to no compensation, given essentially no career growth opportunities and little input on operational improvements. Benefit package is tragic. Excessively poor health care, retirement and PTO is offered. Products are developed in a vacuum, with little consultation from regulatory subject matter experts or end users. The end result thus far has been disastrous. Poor planning and budgeting impacts all employees: it often makes their daily life miserable and job security is at an all-time low. The majority of the executive level team does not live locally. Access to them may be difficult and the company pays a large budget on their unnecessary travel and hotel expenses that would be better served spent elsewhere.