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Worst company I've ever worked for - Project Manager Outcome Sciences Employee Review

1.0
21 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

My peers were great to work with. Nice location in Kendall Square. Decent benefits. I really can't think of anything else.

Cons

- Absolutely no work/life balance. I had clients in Europe and in California and was expected to be available during all of their working hours (read: very early to very late East Coast time). The expectation is you will work 70-80 hour weeks. - Project Managers were given far too many clients and projects at once and when concerns were brought to management they fell on deaf ears. - People who spoke truth to power were summarily dismissed. Management did not want to hear honesty, they just wanted their employees to get in line and do what they're told. - Management was downright unprofessional. - Absolutely no transparency as to why we were required to follow certain procedures. Often our monthly numbers would be changed and we'd have no idea why (or that they were changed at all). Lots of busy work.

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5.0
10 Mar 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

thought leader in industry; fairness and respectfulness of management; flexible hours when in needed;broad vision from upper management on company developing direction;

Cons

too much academic-oriented comparing to industry;some departments are too new; not very clear career development pathway for certain roles;

3.0
5 Aug 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No shortage of projects, busy environment which means the markets they are in are growing. I think developers try to do the right thing most of the time but the clock is always ticking. Luckily, there are some long time employees that can step in and rescue projects.

Cons

Communication across teams working on projects can be improved, some groups are always late with their deliverables to engineering but never put in the hours like engineering when they are falling behind on their work. Immature technology organization but improving - all manual testing, no unit testing, etc. When ideas for improvement in these areas and others are proposed by new employees, they get resistance. All software is built on a proprietary framework making development harder than it needs to be at times, which can be frustrating. This framework is limited in its capabilities, poorly documented, and has some other warts.

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