Toxic Work Environment - Associate Project Manager MedAvante-ProPhase Employee Review

Overall company environment was toxic, crappy salaries, no room for growth, and poor work-life balance, among other things. Salaries are below average when compared to other salaries for the same role, it was signficantly lower, especially for the amount of work. There was no room for growth. You are not considered for promotions, and if you do apply for a higher role, they give ridiculous reasons to not promote you, and instead get enternal hires with no experience. Work life balance was horrible. Regularly working 12+ hours and when you beg upper management for more people, and they repeatedly pushed back. Overall work environment was very toxic. Some teams have minimal direct client interaction, and the client facing project management team has a tendency to point blame rather than have a united front when facing clients. BD does not consider practical timelines when promising things to potential clients, and when projects cannot deliver on ridiculous timelines, internal teams get blamed. Upper management would talk and talk during calls, but without any substance. Just empty speeches, and at the end we had no resolution. No room for career growth with little to no opportunities to learn and develop. They have a lean six sigma yellow belt training they sometimes offer to employees, but junior employees can’t join the training until the senior employees on their team do it. So if a senior employee on your team decides not to do it for years, then you have to wait for years until you get your turn. Another event that basically gave the worst impression for the company and made me realize I wouldn’t be recognized here and probably will not be able to last, is when they suddenly fired a bunch of people, lile 40+, out of nowhere and for no real reason, and announced the terminations to the rest of us during a all-hands meeting to basically say “Hey, if you don’t see so-and-so, it’s because they got fired.” Having worked with some of these employees, and they were amazing to work with and had an abundance of knowledge, so this spontaneous firing was a giant red flag.