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The same sort of negative reviews appear on Glassdoor--toxic culture, long hours, personal life comes second...

Sorry, but SOOOOOO many people can't have gotten it wrong.
 






anonymous said:
HR here - we have to respond to this outright LIE !! The turn over in HO has been 4.5% over past three years. That is fact ! You are a demented sick lier. We know several others have left but it was on their own terms for a change in career. And several WANT TO COME BACK !!!!!!\
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anonymous said:
Correct. Plus lets be truthfull to the possible new hires.....
You will be made a generous salary offer. Do the math and if you are willing to live, breathe, eat, sleep, dream alexion ....be at their 24 hr call...incl weekends doing endless spreadsheets on your stopped cases. Micromanaging every pt on treatment like you were prescriber...get ready to know EVERYTHING about the pt...you may be right for the co. Don't expect to see your family for years.
You will be made a generous stock offer. Paid out in 3 to 5 years...nothing in first year. Now for those of us who got in when stock was less than 30....we are sitting pretty. And cashing out in droves.
And we earned it by killing ourselves for the co. So slackers at the beginning. 80 hrs weeks were the norm.

For those poor folks joining the table in last few years at 134...even at the pauper increase of 20%. To 159...they will never make the early money. That's chump change in bio tech.
Remember that 20% is spread out in equal part over 5 years. Not a smart investment. Find a up start bio pharma. And your trapped there to get it.

And dear HR ...huge turnover ..marketing...analytics...legal...field....
Is it called turnover when the employees just disappear....
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So, is it constant spreadsheets even if a case was stopped? What is a typical day really like...don't mean the hours...I mean the actual daily grind of what is expected --metrics wise with calls required, etc? I am interviewing for a territory that isn't rural so I think that sounds like the only positive. I have current experience in bio world for rare disease. Any insight appreciated.
 






anonymous said:
So, is it constant spreadsheets even if a case was stopped? What is a typical day really like...don't mean the hours...I mean the actual daily grind of what is expected --metrics wise with calls required, etc? I am interviewing for a territory that isn't rural so I think that sounds like the only positive. I have current experience in bio world for rare disease. Any insight appreciated.
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Just take a look at the "HR Person" who posted here earlier in the year. Wow...what professionalism huh? And talk like that coming from"HR" no less. He/she should be embarrassed. My two cents ... while I am sure there are pockets of folks who are happy and work well together, the overall environment is very political with a lot of back stabbing at all levels of the organization. I personally saw people (way more than a handful in my years there) more concerned with who they were going to throw under a bus than be accountable for actual results. Unbelievable how toxic some people can be. Unbelievable that it is tolerated. Same rules don't apply to everyone. Very heavy management with not enough worker bees to do the actual work. Yet some departments seemed so overstaffed you wondered what they had to do all day. Colleagues are expected to be on call 24/7. On vacation? Better be constantly checking emails and responding immediately. Get used to working while your family enjoys quality time without you. Not all....but much of senior management has an elitist attitude. Good pay and benefits....but seriously, I found much greener grass.
 






anonymous said:
Just take a look at the "HR Person" who posted here earlier in the year. Wow...what professionalism huh? And talk like that coming from"HR" no less. He/she should be embarrassed. My two cents ... while I am sure there are pockets of folks who are happy and work well together, the overall environment is very political with a lot of back stabbing at all levels of the organization. I personally saw people (way more than a handful in my years there) more concerned with who they were going to throw under a bus than be accountable for actual results. Unbelievable how toxic some people can be. Unbelievable that it is tolerated. Same rules don't apply to everyone. Very heavy management with not enough worker bees to do the actual work. Yet some departments seemed so overstaffed you wondered what they had to do all day. Colleagues are expected to be on call 24/7. On vacation? Better be constantly checking emails and responding immediately. Get used to working while your family enjoys quality time without you. Not all....but much of senior management has an elitist attitude. Good pay and benefits....but seriously, I found much greener grass.
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Former employees usually suffer from sout grapes
 






Totally agree with the view it is a nasty place to work. I spent over 3 years there and by the end i could count on one hand the numbers of peers who were left that were there when i started. not bitching, just stating fact. oh, and yes, I was asked to work on Christmas Eve to answer some minor query by the old ceo, Lenny, even though I had taken holiday.
As for untalented management, i'll let you be the judge of a CEO who buys Synageva for $8.5bn with no commercial product at the time of acquisition, despite the market turning against biotech (the same company could have been picked up for billions less a couple of months later most likely).
Also, the DoJ has been taking a very keen interest in Alexion business practices over a number of years. Whichever douche bag from HR is trying to refute legitimate criticisms from ex-employees, please try to deny the DoJ investigation into what your leaders have been up to.....

And for the record, I left of my own free will and am not bitter. I could no longer work for people who claimed to want to save patients lives but seemed to put personal financial profit first.
 






anonymous said:
Totally agree with the view it is a nasty place to work. I spent over 3 years there and by the end i could count on one hand the numbers of peers who were left that were there when i started. not bitching, just stating fact. oh, and yes, I was asked to work on Christmas Eve to answer some minor query by the old ceo, Lenny, even though I had taken holiday.
As for untalented management, i'll let you be the judge of a CEO who buys Synageva for $8.5bn with no commercial product at the time of acquisition, despite the market turning against biotech (the same company could have been picked up for billions less a couple of months later most likely).
Also, the DoJ has been taking a very keen interest in Alexion business practices over a number of years. Whichever douche bag from HR is trying to refute legitimate criticisms from ex-employees, please try to deny the DoJ investigation into what your leaders have been up to.....

And for the record, I left of my own free will and am not bitter. I could no longer work for people who claimed to want to save patients lives but seemed to put personal financial profit first.
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anonymous said:
Totally agree with the view it is a nasty place to work. I spent over 3 years there and by the end i could count on one hand the numbers of peers who were left that were there when i started. not bitching, just stating fact. oh, and yes, I was asked to work on Christmas Eve to answer some minor query by the old ceo, Lenny, even though I had taken holiday.
As for untalented management, i'll let you be the judge of a CEO who buys Synageva for $8.5bn with no commercial product at the time of acquisition, despite the market turning against biotech (the same company could have been picked up for billions less a couple of months later most likely).
Also, the DoJ has been taking a very keen interest in Alexion business practices over a number of years. Whichever douche bag from HR is trying to refute legitimate criticisms from ex-employees, please try to deny the DoJ investigation into what your leaders have been up to.....

And for the record, I left of my own free will and am not bitter. I could no longer work for people who claimed to want to save patients lives but seemed to put personal financial profit first.
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Wow... You sound like a little bitch that could pick up the phone on Christmas Eve to save the patient. Must be a real rough picking up a phone to help someone.
 






ha, ha, you really are a fool. read the post..."minor query" unless you obviously class saving a patient's life as a minor query. in fact, you sound just like one of the money grabbers in upper management who would let patients suffer rather than agreeing to supply drug when the authority in question couldn't pay for the patient's treatment.

nice try by someone who can't open their eyes to the obvious. another one who is part of the problem... do please explain what is going on in alxn in the last few weeks since most credible biotechs are finally resurging on the nasdaq (INCY, BIIB etc.) yet alxn is tanking, even after a good Q3 earnings call. what secrets are being hidden this time which some people obviously know about and are selling???
 






...p.s. ladies and gentleman, thanks to the unnecessary 'little bitch' comment, I think you can now see the sort of attitude people have towards their colleagues in alxn. Thank you for this demonstration, I think it will be most helpful!
 






anonymous said:
...p.s. ladies and gentleman, thanks to the unnecessary 'little bitch' comment, I think you can now see the sort of attitude people have towards their colleagues in alxn. Thank you for this demonstration, I think it will be most helpful!
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It actually says more about you. It is clear why you were fired from the company.
 






anonymous said:
ha, ha, you really are a fool. read the post..."minor query" unless you obviously class saving a patient's life as a minor query. in fact, you sound just like one of the money grabbers in upper management who would let patients suffer rather than agreeing to supply drug when the authority in question couldn't pay for the patient's treatment.

nice try by someone who can't open their eyes to the obvious. another one who is part of the problem... do please explain what is going on in alxn in the last few weeks since most credible biotechs are finally resurging on the nasdaq (INCY, BIIB etc.) yet alxn is tanking, even after a good Q3 earnings call. what secrets are being hidden this time which some people obviously know about and are selling???
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Secrets? OIG investigation is complete, massive fine to be paid, you will now be under a CIA. Have fun!
 






I just stick to facts.
a) It's easy for others to say "you were fired" because it somehow excuses my critique in their eyes. I wasn't fired and on the contrary, was asked if I would stay by one of the current C-Exec team. I know it's hard to accept but believe it or not, people do decide to leave the company of their own accord because of better opportunities elsewhere, as in my case.

b) 'investigation was closed'...maybe, but i'll leave the latest emerging issue to the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/alexion-pharmaceuticals-investigating-drugs-sales-practices-1478728722

It's for stuff like that I decided to leave and take my ethics with me because there are better places to feel good about yourself and what you do everyday. Sure, you can help save patient's lives at Alexion but let's face it, you can do that in a number of pharma/biotech companies. Good luck to anyone that stays but do so with your eyes open and don't try to justify or excuse others' bad behavior when you see it, which unfortunately you may do at some stage.
 


















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