The United States Pharmacopeia Reviews

Current Employee – been working at The United States Pharmacopeia

Pros – Highly educated, diverse, and dedicated staff. Good benefits package (medical, dental, and disability). Globally oriented with offices in China, India, and Brazil. Public mission dedicated to public safety with medicines, food ingredients, and supplements.

Cons – Strategy changes from week to week, resulting in inefficiency and confusion. Lack of ability to focus on key initiatives because of strategical fickleness. Adverserial culture in management team, more interested in one-upping each other than working together. CEO lacks good judgment, controlled more by his whim of the week than sound judgment, which places the organization at fiscal risk.

Advice to Senior Management – Creating a culture of listening, respect, and cooperation. The divisiveness between departments as well as within departments keeps the organization from working optimally, producing inefficiency and poor morale.

Former Employee – worked at The United States Pharmacopeia full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Salary, benefits, mission are outstanding. Culturally diverse workforce combined with high employee skill level sets the stage for a potentially intellectually stimulating work environment.

Cons – Mis-management, culture of fear, reprisals for expressing views that differ from senior management, chaotic strategy, constant re-organization for no clear reason.

Advice to Senior Management – Board needs to re-evaluate all senior VP's and CEO and bring in several new management team members. The harmful culture is too inbred to resolve with just a change in CEO.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The United States Pharmacopeia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – well managed atmosphere
fixed working hours
employee benefit oriented policies
saving oriented policies
best brand the pharma employee ever had

Cons – work load is increased and mimicking with other pharma industry
performance based incentives is manipulated

Advice to Senior Management – should give performance based incentives

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at The United States Pharmacopeia

Pros – Great benefits, including tuition reimbursement
Great campus/office space

Cons – Lack of structured planning
Management was too ad-hoc about their decisions
Backdooring people was a common tactic used by department heads & management

Advice to Senior Management – To achieve you have to plan before implementing.