Pharmascience Reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(203 total reviews)
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Jim Vounassis

100% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Pharmascience has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 203 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pharmascience employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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203 reviews
3.0
1 Mar 2018
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Pros

There are some people with a high level of expertise whom you can learn from. Lots of great people to work with. For many jobs (except e.g. shift work), there are flexible hours and "summer hours" (in the summer get off early Friday afternoons by making up your time the other days of the week). There are many wholly or partially company-supported programs for development of employees and their families, e.g. community involvement grant lottery, sports participation support lottery, volunteering abroad program, youth leadership. CEO is a down-to-earth guy who genuinely cares for his employees.

Cons

Lack of stability and high turnover (which has increased recently because of the company's problems) due to a combination of departures and periodic restructurings. The people who leave or whose positions are eliminated tend to be intermediate level - the result is that there's often someone at the top who doesn't have time to deal with a problem, and if it gets delegated, the entry-level person whom it is delegated to has to do a job they didn't sign up for, and doesn't have the experience or institutional knowledge to deal with it correctly and/or in a timely manner. Can feel like things are chaotic because of the above, and because things are always changing and there's also a lack of communication among departments. It sometimes feels like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Also generally there is a lack of transparency and/or lack of direction (it's difficult to tell which) from upper management. Certain members of the upper management are better talkers than doers.

2.0
15 Apr 2018

Extremely Disappointing Upper Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Summer hours for most of the year (8 months) - Some amazing coworkers

Cons

- Upper Management does not try to understand what their teams are working on and only presses for results - Company does nothing to retain good employees - Low accountability in work from several teams - No HR or career development support

1.0
9 Sept 2017

Don't waste your time

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fair work and life balance. Great colleagues

Cons

- In the last three years management has been out of standards. Specially in the Canadian division. - There is no clear mision and vision. - Some mid management are immature and literally kids. Even with some sort of Napoleon complex. - Great place for consultants. There is one literally for anything. - Never seen in my international experience such a poor management performance. Surprised to find this in Canada (in theory an advanced economy)

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