The grass is not greener in Gaithersburg

[anonymous]

Medi sucks. No products shitty ass pipeline and the bickering is just beginning. Only a few will survive the formation of the task force and people are picking sides as we speak. Nothing good will come from the grab bag until very late 18. You are all fucked. People there all hate the DE invaders and they in turn have not met a single Medi person who understands even the basic concepts behind commercialization. They think they signed up to work in a lab at State U.

 

[anonymous]

Medi sucks. No products shitty ass pipeline and the bickering is just beginning. Only a few will survive the formation of the task force and people are picking sides as we speak. Nothing good will come from the grab bag until very late 18. You are all fucked. People there all hate the DE invaders and they in turn have not met a single Medi person who understands even the basic concepts behind commercialization. They think they signed up to work in a lab at State U.

This is the problem at AZ and why they don't ever have new products. The commercial people try to steer the R&D, because they are higher up in the organization, but they don't know anything about R&D. That doesn't stop them from micromanaging it though. Then of course R&D produces nothing. What works is to assign a therapy area in which to do R&D, let something good get discovered, then worry about commercializing something that you actually have in hand. Seems simple, but that isn't how its done at most majors anymore. This is why they all just buy products from more competent research organizations now.

 

[anonymous]

Now that Med Affairs rivals everyone but commercial in size you now have all the petty battles that you used to see between CNS and CV or Resp vs Primary Care. My CBL can beat up your NSD. Our RSDs are prettier than your DSMs. We have more BAMs and FRLs and other Band 5 secretaries than you do. Those battles are now being waged as the headcount free for all days are gone.

 

[anonymous]

AZ/MedI need simplification (in other words, fewer people to stop over complicating commercial and R&D). This will either happen through a merger and headcount reduction or headcount reduction for $1.1 billion in savings after patent expirations. Either way, headcount reduction.

 

[anonymous]

> People there all hate the DE invaders

Fuck 'em. Now they know how AZ IT felt when the entire leadership team was sacked and replaced with Medi losers. 5 seconds in they were so in over their head it was a fucking joke. No idea how to run an organization, how to implement processes that made sense, how to engage customers, or how to do anything at an enterprise level. They had the management acumen of the IT guy at your kids public school who barely can keep the computer in the library up and running. All they managed to do was gut 1/2 the department, try to fill those spots with Medi cronies, and then they all got shitcanned themselves after a year cause their incompetence was greater than even ITLT's ability to cover up.

Remember when AS was tasked with staffing Chennai? Goal was 300 hires by end of that year, she managed to get 7 hires. What a joke that whole crew was.

 

[anonymous]

Medi is slowly being assimilated but it will probably be too late for them. When the need for cost cutting comes, they will be the target. There simply isn't enough left to cut anywhere else in the US to make the number now, except for them.