BioMarin Pharmaceutical Reviews

Pros

Great learning environment, lots of extremely smart people, room for advancement, study teams are great, flexible hours

Advice to Management

While planning out the clinical development plans, evaluate resourcing needs earlier on. Also, management should consult with the study teams on realistic timelines.

Pros

All Pros at this company

Pros

-Good place to work and learn about the industry, especially at the entry level if you are fresh out of college, but not necessarily a place where you will grow and be rewarded for your hard work.

-Most people are nice

-Laid back type of work atmosphere

Advice to Management

It seems that for every 1 QC analyst or MFG associate, there is about 3-5 managers/directors. Huge disparity if you look at actual people working on the floor, and how many people are in management, which makes absolutely no sense. How is the company going to retain talent when it is only the one's in management getting all of the promotions. Very poor management in my opinion, upper level management never actually comes onto the floor to talk to the hard-working individuals that call it home.

-Blatant favoritism, its not about hard work. When people aren't rewarded for their hard work, they lose their incentive to continue working hard. Its not rocket science, you think people in upper level management would be able to figure this out.

Pros

none that I can think of.

Pros

I've been here for more than five years, and I love Mondays! I still pinch myself because I get to work in such a positive work environment. I have so much respect for the people here, who are brilliant and humble--a rare combination of traits. It is highly motivating to work for a company that has a clear purpose focused on helping people with rare genetic diseases. It is an exciting time to be at BioMarin while it is growing rapidly and to be a part of cutting edge science.

Advice to Management

Tell me more about what you're thinking.

Pros

Open communications with my manager. She was one of the best managers I've had in 49 years at over 15 companies. She expected a lot but was very fair, gave good feedback and could always be trusted. She rewarded people for hard work and made BioMarin a fun place to work with many team building events.

Advice to Management

Keep up the team events and giving feedback to people through a minimum of bi-weekly one on one meetings wit people's managers and bi-weekly team meetings. Also continue to have monthly "cake and communication" department meetings.

Pros

The company offers great salary and benefits.

Advice to Management

Stop micromanaging people. It does not work!!! Micromanaging is a negative style of managing your employees. It is not the most productive way to approach your team.

Pros

Fantastic opportunity to work with very bright and engaged scientists.

Advice to Management

Allow the people in the trenches more access to you - great ideas can come from anywhere!

Pros

Very rewarding work. Helping patients with unmet medical needs. Smart people. Good work environment. My boss is the best!

Pros

Dedicated staff and most individuals are very easy to work with. Company culture really focused on patient health.