Medidata Solutions reviews

I joined the company two months ago and I couldn't be happier. It was a tough decision to leave my old company, but the people, the exciting work, the management, the brand new facilities and company overall have made the jump VERY worthwhile. One of the top 5 company goals is to be the Employer of Choice in life sciences and it's very obvious. I've already recommended the company to 2 friends.

In general: * It's a noble cause: making clinical trials more efficient helps drugs get approved faster and cost less. * Everybody is expected to have opinions about everything--it's a cliche, but the employees are *very empowered*. You can practically write your own job description if you make a good case. * The company's doing well--raises and promotions come fast, as do special cash bonuses for things like (for an engineer) finding an exploit in another team's code. In my department: * Engineers work with a net: 1 tester for every 5 engineers, code review on every commit, test-driven development with automated continuous integration. * New development is in Ruby on Rails (that's still cool, right?) and makes every effort to do things right. * You can get paid to write open-source software--Medidata is increasingly releasing everything it can in public repositories on GitHub. * There's a big training budget if you want to go to conferences or take a course on the side. * Very relaxed environment--you'll often see us multitasking between work and a card game. * You can advance arbitrarily far without needing to become a manager; talented engineers can have authority without any direct reports if that's what they prefer.