Is Rare Disease a good place to be?

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

 

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

Of course it is! Didn't you see the LinkedIn photo of the contrived millk run with Lars last week? He was surrounded by a few of the best to ever walk the hallowed halls of Plainsboro, NOT. We do have a few really good people here that make this place more tolerable than the Diabetes side, but they mostly scraped the bottom of the barrel for this photo op!

 

[anonymous]

Of course it is! Didn't you see the LinkedIn photo of the contrived millk run with Lars last week? He was surrounded by a few of the best to ever walk the hallowed halls of Plainsboro, NOT. We do have a few really good people here that make this place more tolerable than the Diabetes side, but they mostly scraped the bottom of the barrel for this photo op!

If you’re a female, or you identify as one, or, if you don’t I’d Road bring either male or female then you’re good to go.
Translation: if you’re a guy, forget about it.

#girlsrulerarediseases

 

[anonymous]

If you’re a female, or you identify as one, or, if you don’t I’d Road bring either male or female then you’re good to go.
Translation: if you’re a guy, forget about it.

#girlsrulerarediseases

^or if you don’t identify being either make or debate …

 

[anonymous]

Personally know several outstanding reps who’ve transitioned to rare disease and they love it. For the fortunate few who got in with start ups, the stock options and buy outs have made them 3-4x salary. Most rare disease salary is 185-205 with 55-65 target bonus for territory managers. Big territories is the downside but big risk reward potential. Lower 401k matches and no company car usually but most I know exceed 100k yearly bonuses routinely but with long hours driving and flying. Car reimbursement when no company car is usually insanely high.

 

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

Yes it is. You just have to be willing to work around the clock and not be afraid or say anything when the reps boss’s boss asks you to do all sorts of shady shit. #immunetorulesrared

 

[anonymous]

Nope you can’t say that’s the case for all rare disease jobs, you moron. My friend has a small territory and is well paid and isn’t working any harder than we do. Plus in rare disease it usually has to be accommodated on MHC

 

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

 

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

How is the culture in RareD? I hear there are issues with compliance because of the VP but I want the rare experience.

 

[anonymous]

Yes it is. You just have to be willing to work around the clock and not be afraid or say anything when the reps boss’s boss asks you to do all sorts of shady shit. #immunetorulesrared

Work around the clock! Offices open 8-4. That’s too funny. No one works in pharma.

 

[anonymous]

How is the culture in RareD? I hear there are issues with compliance because of the VP but I want the rare experience.

That jag-off got terminated for being slimy, but his bad name lives on in perpetuity.

 

[anonymous]

What are you talking about? You cafepharma posters know nothing……

 

[anonymous]

Haha!! Way to try to throw people off. She’s still at the helm….she’s way above rules. Don’t make the jump.

 

[anonymous]

Work around the clock! Offices open 8-4. That’s too funny. No one works in pharma.

You must not work here. Most days for reps, at least for me, start at 6am catching up on admin, sitting here on a Sun morning looking at a string of emails sent by our dbm on fri evening, saturday and sunday, including multiple action items for Monday morning. Our district text thread goes all weekend, normally starts at 7am and goes until the late night, many times by our manager alone, until 10-11pm. Out of the house by 8 or earlier, back about 5, more admin in the evenings, interface work, expense, etc. I would say most weeks are 55-60 hours easily. Unfortunately most of this is because we have new leadership that focuses so much more on micromanaging the field, metrics, endless trackers and more metrics, and this filters down to the rbds and dbms.

 

[anonymous]

You must not work here. Most days for reps, at least for me, start at 6am catching up on admin, sitting here on a Sun morning looking at a string of emails sent by our dbm on fri evening, saturday and sunday, including multiple action items for Monday morning. Our district text thread goes all weekend, normally starts at 7am and goes until the late night, many times by our manager alone, until 10-11pm. Out of the house by 8 or earlier, back about 5, more admin in the evenings, interface work, expense, etc. I would say most weeks are 55-60 hours easily. Unfortunately most of this is because we have new leadership that focuses so much more on micromanaging the field, metrics, endless trackers and more metrics, and this filters down to the rbds and dbms.

if you are not embellishing here you need to get together with your team and go to hr, seriously.

 

[anonymous]

You must not work here. Most days for reps, at least for me, start at 6am catching up on admin, sitting here on a Sun morning looking at a string of emails sent by our dbm on fri evening, saturday and sunday, including multiple action items for Monday morning. Our district text thread goes all weekend, normally starts at 7am and goes until the late night, many times by our manager alone, until 10-11pm. Out of the house by 8 or earlier, back about 5, more admin in the evenings, interface work, expense, etc. I would say most weeks are 55-60 hours easily. Unfortunately most of this is because we have new leadership that focuses so much more on micromanaging the field, metrics, endless trackers and more metrics, and this filters down to the rbds and dbms.

Even if this was true (its not)- none of that is hard to manage. You get texts on a group chat- ignore them. You manager wants trackers- make it up- no one at any company ever really checks it. Micro manager no problem give him what he wants and make him look good. Need 10 calls a day- fake some. Manager calls you at 8am text back say you are on other call and will call him right back- go out to car and call him back. Its really not that hard...

Find a way to win. This industry is full of people that can't sell and even if they get lucky and win they have no idea why or how it happened. Its so easy to be great when you are surrounded by idiots like the person who is claiming they work 55-60 hours a week.

 

[anonymous]

if you have a larger geography, 55-60 hours is very possible. can take me over 2 hours easily, one-way, to get to/from offices. interface, breakfasts, endless teams meetings, pod meetings, dbm meetings, call metrics to hit. I lived in a large city years back and life was pretty sweet with medical buildings containing 6-7 different offices. It's not like that for many people.

 

[anonymous]

if you have a larger geography, 55-60 hours is very possible. can take me over 2 hours easily, one-way, to get to/from offices. interface, breakfasts, endless teams meetings, pod meetings, dbm meetings, call metrics to hit. I lived in a large city years back and life was pretty sweet with medical buildings containing 6-7 different offices. It's not like that for many people.

you'll be the next gimp

 

[anonymous]

if you have a larger geography, 55-60 hours is very possible. can take me over 2 hours easily, one-way, to get to/from offices. interface, breakfasts, endless teams meetings, pod meetings, dbm meetings, call metrics to hit. I lived in a large city years back and life was pretty sweet with medical buildings containing 6-7 different offices. It's not like that for many people.

Wait. Rare disease at Novo has pods?!? And Interface programs?!? I’ve never heard of that in rare disease.

 

[anonymous]

Is Rare Disease a good place to be? Does it pay well?

It’s a compliance disaster because of the VP. Run. I’m not kidding run.