Terrible Experience Working Amongst Inflated Egos
Pros
A few good people blindly following shady interests.
Cons
GRAIL lures you in as a perfect workplace, but management is quick to strip away all of the perks that attracted you to the interview. They tell you that they want you to innovate, but then prevent you from effecting any change. The company is teeming with a near cultish employee culture. QA, regulatory, and operations departments are collaborating in a way that erodes research subject safety and data reliability/reproducibility. This naturally presents a HUGE conflict of interest. To make it worse, there’s very little internal transparency about how upper management directs information, and plans operational changes. Poor data reproducibility, and insufficient parameter selection for the goal. The company changed data collection methods over a year into a study, with over 12,000 subjects already enrolled. Not enough internal accountability. Would be surprised if the test ever gets approved in the US. Upper management has even redirected efforts to Chinese markets knowing that. Part of me wonders whether this company is only receiving funding past its original $1B because it has the huge liability of protecting all of the HIPAA/PHI data that it has collected. I recommend avoiding GRAIL at all costs.