Oddity Labs - Anonymous employee Oddity (MA) Employee Review

Fast-paced environment with plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth. You will gain a level of ownership and responsibility here that you are unlikely to find at any other biotech company.

Not a 9-to-5 job. If you don't handle pressure well, this isn't the place for you.

- Many talented and skilled research staff to work with and learn from.

- No scientific leadership. Management are mostly non-scientists, but also tend to micromanage projects, which is a terrible combination. Upper management have no understanding of what's scientifically reasonable and have a tendency of jumping on projects based on buzzwords. - Work hours are 9am-7pm, encouraging presence over efficiency. - Wet lab is highly disorganized, with one lab manager holding the fort for too many researchers. The parent company ODDITY is rather large, publicly traded and has a good revenue stream, yet Labs are still run inside a startup incubator, contributing to the lack of organization and limiting what can be achieved. - Turnover is pretty bad, likely owing to all of the above. Many highly experienced scientists with a decade+ of experience were hired after layoffs in other places, but given lower titles and pay, and will likely leave as soon as they can.