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Is don tough to work for! Lots of past employees are rejoining.

Yes, Don is hard to work for, mainly because he’s a total moron who doesn’t understand his own role or be bothered to learn how to lead a sales team in the current environment. The ONLY reason past employees would rejoin this shit hole is because they haven’t been able to find other employment and the hiring managers can’t find qualified people willing to join a company with such a questionable future.
 






Don is a disaster as a manager. I worked for him before he got demoted back to RBD, and he provided no clear direction and only reactionary responses to every situation. Plus he’s one of the old skool Pharma dudes, which does not lend to prioritizing diversity and differences in thought or execution. But it all comes from the overall lack of leadership stemming from Deryk’s significant faults as VP from day 1.
 






Culture comes from the top, not sure if any of you have met Jerry, but suffice it to say the culture will not get better with him at the helm. To be clear he is a smart guy and a pretty shrewd marketer, but doesn't deal well with people, in fact I can't think of someone more awkward for interpersonal interactions (when you can actually have an interpersonal interaction with Jerry, which is rare indeed.)
 






True, just look at what Richard Kim did to our culture under Mark P’s (lack of) leadership. There’s a reason Deryk David fought so hard anytime Jerry wanted to be on stage at sales meetings because nothing he said was motivating to the field.
 






True, just look at what Richard Kim did to our culture under Mark P’s (lack of) leadership. There’s a reason Deryk David fought so hard anytime Jerry wanted to be on stage at sales meetings because nothing he said was motivating to the field.

Jerry doesn't do motivation, should anyone doubt this, please watch the Intercept first quarter earnings call, tons of verbiage very little content. With regard to the buzz kill at field sales meetings, demotivating the field was a specialty of Sanofi senior management during his time at Sanofi. Believe it or not, Jerry wasn't even close to the biggest downer, that honor went to Thierry Soursac, my god could they suck the life out of a room.