Medivation Reviews

Pros

Great people, fun culture from the beginning

Cons

Tumultuous decision-making toward the end

Pros

Intelligent staff, great location, profit sharing

Cons

Fast paced, aggressive management

Pros

collegial and friendly work environment, super smart colleagues

Cons

lots of fire drills and preventable emergencies due to lack of planning

Pros

great benefits and some room for advancement

Cons

"me too" movement type culture. accusation no evidence can get you fired

Advice to Management

not good

Pros

Medivation had a great vision and treated its employees superbly. There were many opportunities for advancement and to move into other areas of interest.

Cons

Some managers were big on micro-management. Early research initiatives were often very secretive.

Advice to Management

Discourage cliques and take a mature management approach that does not put on too much pressure or stress the details.

Pros

Very nice culture, cool projects, lovely colleagues. Really enjoyed my time there!

Cons

There isn't really anything to complain about my experience at Medivation.

Pros

Great vision, good product and portfolio, Saving patient lives, fairly competitive salary, good benefits, good location, free drinks- coffee- fruits- snack-food

Cons

Small company mentality. Original employees combative of changes. refuse to grow and change their business practices for the better. Lots of clans and gossiping. Poor and non-existent processes. Promotion/ advancement is on the favoritism basis instead of merit. Incompetent senior leadership. Inefficiency.

Advice to Management

Good job selling the company to Pfizer.

Pros

Influence across the organization, exciting environment, great co-workers, excellent location.

Cons

Weak infrastructure, upper management, computer systems are not ideal