The best choice to make is to work for another company. Ariosa is going to be closed in the near future. They are hopelessly mired in IP lawsuits, the most problematic of which is with Illumina, a company with a ton of money and patents that it can assert against Ariosa.
LabCorp just announced on August 20th that it is marketing its own NIPT test, so that will take away LabCorp from marketing Harmony and the LabCorp test will likely take all or most of the OB/GYN accounts that LabCorp was selling Harmony to.
Nobody is going to finance Ariosa with the IP lawsuits out there and growing, and with LabCorp now dumping Harmony and selling their own in-house NIPT.
Sales falling, financing dried up, increasing competitors, very inexperienced management. They have a real doofus as the "President" - he should be a DM at most for a mid-level Pharma; he's in waaay over his abilities and that makes you question how competent the Board is that hired him. Song is a first-time CEO and tries hard, but he's inexperienced.
Ariosa is a disaster and anyone who is on the ball at all should be planning to leave before the doors are locked one morning and there is no money to pay severances or to offer COBRA (once a company shuts down, they terminate the medical plan and you can't get COBRA coverage).
That's the choice you have to make: wait to get terminated or find a job with a better company. And fast.
Seriously, what is to like about this company?
