Takeda Pharmaceuticals Reviews

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Really large company to work at, interaction between different departments rare

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A lot of change, which isn't necessarily bad, but if you can't handle change it might not be the place for you.

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Depending on the manager lots of micro management, Constant concern if you will have a job from quarter to quarter, high costs for personal use of the car, very few advancement opportunities

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Senior management is not transparent about project goals.
False sense of focus on patients. Commercial still drives development strategy, sometimes to the extreme. Good people being transferred to dying projects while management is making false-promises. Global decisions are made without input from local teams.

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Pay is a little low
systems are severely outdated

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management took approaches that are outdated, which led to inefficiency, neoptism and loss of talent .

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Management is clueless and very inexperienced to lead specialty business with primary care mentality.

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poor training, bad documentation, management in positions because of nepotism

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Takeda has some high-level problems that cascades throughout the company, and ruins almost everything. Such problems include inability for leaders to offer a clear vision, legacy employees protecting their hollowed out jobs, communication issues with Japan, and incompetent leadership.
These are all high-level, but poison everything down to the department level. There is no accountability. Middle-management company wide is known for being incompetent, and ineffective. HR is spineless. There are minimal career options for growth.

 Audit leadership is especially incompetent and unqualified at all levels. The hardest thing is to get any audit leader to do their job. They tend to excel at sleeping during the job, and hiring buddies from GE Capital on unrealistically huge-salaries. Imagine having a ‘leader’ that is incapable of holding a proper conversation, and can’t even make eye contact. Imagine how that effects learning, advancement and well-being? Also, head leadership in Japan is well known for taking expensive 'business trips' for insignificant reasons that could be solved over short phone calls.

There is a reason the last CFO didn't last long here- its simply not a place for people who want to do their best. Think more like a bureaucratic government department.

A catalyst for this strong dysfunction is that HQ is in Japan- their communication style is not direct and makes progress very slow. The priority is to ensure that everyone agrees and is happy; harmony. Hence honest opinions, however much needed, are not welcomed. Therefore, politics run rampant.

Also, unfortunately, Human Resource is filled with legacy managers who just care about keeping their jobs. They will never attempt any meaningful change, as that would mean going above and beyond. The only action they do is masking the rotten core of the company, and propping up Takeda's image via fake Glassdoor reviews.

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Awful politics, useless HR, leadership “good old boys” club, rule by fear