Learn as much as you can then get out
Pros
Good way to get your foot into the door of the pharmaceutical industry. Variety of clients, TAs, drugs, and work streams.
Cons
(At least in Chicago) the business model is to hire very junior team members, overwork the junior team members, place a heavy burden on the less junior folks as they train the junior members and carry the teams so that they don’t sink, and then when the junior members inevitably quit from the toxic working environment the senior leadership just replaces them with more junior team members with no experience. They have set up their processes to be very big brother, with the project manager constantly monitoring your whereabouts and literally planning every second of your day. The senior leaders are pathetic leaders who propagate a very high school type of culture — gossiping behind people’s backs. When you question the toxic culture, they’ll just tell you that this is the way it is so don’t question it. Managers and senior leaders will also try to string you along with false promises of promotion. Don’t buy it - talk is cheap.
