ImClone Reviews

Pros

good work place environment and good pay and benefits. Management is good and there are good opportunities for the personal growth.

Cons

long commute to work place. There is a lot of asian community os during lunch and in some meetings people speak chineese.

Advice to Senior Management

interact more

Pros

You really are exposed to multiple areas within the company. The environment is fast-paced and people who are willing to go above and beyond will find themselves with plenty of opportunity for working on different types of projects.

There are different cultures between departments (however, the one I work in is pretty drama-free).

Cons

Before it was acquired, ImClone was a good-ole-boys club. That has good and bad parts to it. The good part is that you can get a lot done with less red-tape. However, since being acquired, red-tape and bureaucracy have really crept in. There are some remnants of senior management from the old ImClone who really should move on - they were part of the "club" and have trouble managing at this level.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with respect and actually hold them accountable. Too many times under-performers are not dealt with. Additionally, make sure cost cutting and HR policies are applied to all groups the same way.

Pros

Get involved and exposed to all aspect of preclinical drug development

Cons

R&D could be a bit larger

Pros

Great PTO benefits. Great 401(k) match. Great people. Nice area. Nice corporate atmosphere. Clean place to work. Our products prolong life and quality of life giving meaning to the job.

Cons

People in high management positions that would be in much lower positions other places in reference to competency level.

Need to be in the "right" crowd to move up.

Pros

Management allows you to work on Projects of your interest
Professional development programs, they groom Managers in all functional areas
Tuition reimbursement

Cons

Dependency on blockbuster just in order to survive. This is not just isolated to ImClone but to the Pharma industry as a whole. It's been taking a beating.

Pros

Salaries are ok, benefits great. Good balance of work life/home life. Industry related training is good and getting better. Be your own advocate at ImClone and you can build a good career.

Cons

With all the recent lay-offs, everyone is waiting for the next round. Many are nervous and don't trust upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't postpone telling employees important news. You're loosing their trust.

Pros

Average compensation with a good benefit package.

Cons

No system for professional advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Establish a system for individual professional growth.

Pros

Decent salary, excellent location if you are in NYC, interesting research. For the most part people keep to themselves. If this is how you like to work then this is a plus.

Cons

I worked in a VERY small research group. My supervisor was not in the country for most of the first two months of my job. The woman I was assigned to work with while my boss was away was an incompetent, rude Research Scientist. She had no idea what was actually happening in those little PCR tubes yet she was a Research Scientist II. How does this happen? She was completely useless.

 The experience was a total nightmare. Many people were not willing to share- anything! Protocols, information, tips, sharpies. i couldn't believe it!

My manager should not have hired me and then taken off for two months. I think I had been there two weeks when she left for her two month vacation. She didn't leave me prepared at all- not enough literature, no old notebooks, no co-workers I could to go to if I ran into trouble or wanted to shoot ideas around (which is rarley done anyway since somebody might steal them from you). I was very dissapointed by my experience with my supervisor. My supervisor was also aware that the Research Scientist II I was left to work with was incompetent. Many people had wanted her fired but my supervisor feared backlash from HR. When Lily showed up I ran.

The company culture is ok. One thing that bothered me is that many people speak Chinese during the work day. It is a bit of a bummer only because it makes it hard to get to know people, and then you are even less likely to be able to have a work relevant conversation.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't hire somebody and then leave the country for 2 months. If multiple employees complain about the incompetence of a worker, fire her! Don't hire a new person and force her to train with somebody who has no interest in helping and has almost zero knowledge.

Pros

For the most part the line managers and grunts are fun to work with and good people who really want to take initiative and get work done. As such, these lower level truly believe that the goals of the company with respect to cancer care are noble and work diligently to accomplish those goals. Central Jersey location in the middle of Pharma land of NJ. Prior to Lilly acquisition, low levels of bureaucracy if you want to take an initiative and run with it.

Cons

The company will always have the taint of corruption in its blood. There was never a true cleansing and there are still employees that should have lost their jobs for the insider trading scandal but somehow remain. It seems to attract leadership that is either incompetent or unprincipled or in the worst case both. The current leadership acts as if they have the best interest of the employees in their heart, but in reality could care less about the regular employee and are more concerned about the hand chosen pets who manage up but treat their co-workers with disrespect. Many managers are the "B" or "C" team corporate escapees. Watch out for the stealth lay-offs that are still occurring.

Advice to Senior Management

Lilly should understand its belief in the culture of ImClone is misplaced. It is the can-do attitude of the day to day employees that drove the culture of ImClone, not the brilliance of management that road the coattails of Icahn to sell the company.

Pros

The management is extremely helpful and trully appreciative of what one does no matter how small, also the coworkers are great.

Cons

There are some freeriders within the department that the management is holding on to, although these people are not working up to their full potential.

Advice to Senior Management

Please, don't allow free-loading within your department and get rid of the lazy people - replace them with someone more productive.