Millennium Pharmaceuticals Reviews

Pros

High quality researchers supported by management with direction and equipment to achieve short term goals
-IT support excels and providing support and integration
-Easily accessible to public transportation
-Flexible work/life
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Cons

-Contract employment can lead nowhere, Long term contracts used to get around headcount issues
-Development opportunities must be sought out
-Somewhat stratified organization
-Management long term goals not always communicated with actions that support words

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

cutting edge therapies and studies
decent pay

Cons

cronyism
If not in the clique you don't advance
no senior management communication

Advice to Senior Management

share info with your employess
base promotions on more than who you like

Pros

Stable competent management team accessible to everyone, collaborative colleagues and robust pipeline. Millennium has a small to mid size entrepreneurial environment, but is backed by a larger very successful pharmaceutical company which is the best of both worlds. Management pays attention to employee feedback and takes action. Great work is recognized in a variety of ways. Millennium is an intense place to work because people are passionate about helping cancer patients. They also take time out to enjoy each and to give back to the community through many company sponsored events.

Cons

Millennium attracts some of the brightest people in the industry which when you bring all those people together into one company, it can be somewhat humbling for them (am I as good as I thought I was). It's an adjustment that some people struggle with. People who come from very hierachical organizations struggle sometimes because they have more freedom at Millennium in how they get their work done. If you like a lot of structure, Millennium may not be the best place for you to work. No doubt about it, people work VERY hard at Millennium, so burnout can be an issue. The company is very good about offering flexibility to its employees so they can try to manage the balance between work and home.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep paying attention to what's important to employees. They are the most important asset Millennium has. What they are doing seems to be working or we would not be receiving so much recognition as a Great Place to Work.

Pros

Great work experience as an intern. Everyone within my group taught me something different. Always a lot of parties or functions going on.

Cons

Not many chances for people in smaller groups to be promoted. They want people to relocate to Japan for three months at a time, employees feel pressured by it.

Advice to Senior Management

Organization within groups could use work. There seemed to be more conflicts than were necessary. Actually enforcing new policies would be helpful.

Pros

there is a good chance to learn new thing\ here and be noticed due to their size, this is also stable company,

Cons

there is not a lot of advancement due to size currently. the company does not have a 401 k match which would put them as a fore-runner.

Advice to Senior Management

a 401 match would be nice. upper management should respect all workers in particular the ones with experience inside the company

Pros

a good company to work with, good company culture, good people and by now the company is stable and move

Cons

the company is relatively small and the focus of therapeutic area is only one and people seldome have opportunity to expose more

Pros

Growth opportunities are present everywhere

Cons

It's going to be global

Pros

Cutting edge science and well integrated projects.

Cons

Cutting edge science but leadership lacked experience for sustained growth. Some of the pomposity of cambridge coloured their better judgement

Advice to Senior Management

see one liner

Pros

Very good flexible work schedule, good work /life balance, smart and professional colleagues, opportunity for career growth, and good location

Cons

The down side is that there are a lot of teritorial politics within the company, and that depending on where you are within the company the promotion can be quite long.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to be more open, and not too secretive with employees, speeding up promotions (it should be based on performance and not senority), and poor performing employees should be let go

Pros

good pay, great benefits, good culture

Cons

lack of experience in leadership positions. Leadership by intimidation

Advice to Senior Management

invest in leadership training for director level people managers