Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Reviews

Clearly lacking strategy and focus in global expansion.

Career growth:
 For those who actually care about career progression/growth, please do your due diligence before coming here. On the R&D side, if you are not a PI or above, you will be treated like a hired hand. You will be strongly encouraged to work on weekends and holidays to generate data but only to have your data taken away and analyzed by your project leads. If you have a PhD, then that’s even more unfortunate, because no one wants to hear your ideas. Your PI’s just want a report that does what he/she is told. This way they can blatantly take credit for your work products cause frankly some of the PI’s (yes multiple) have less scientific acumen and technical skills than you do. On the operations side, this doesn’t even matter because they are dropping like flies.
 Management: Current management team is run by HR. Seems like a RED FLAG when an organization lets the HR person run the show, rather than the COO or the CSO. HR is directly responsible for the company’s high turnover because they terminate people on a whim for personal vendettas but at the same time unable to hire replacements with any real qualifications. Thus resorting to going way above market comp to sign new employees which exacerbates current employee resentment. Culture: Toxic work environment. Year to date turnover rate is 82%. HR formed a culture committee in mid 2020 to address the issue of bad culture, however, the committee only had one kickoff meeting so far. I think this echoes the sentiment from a previous review, that management only cares about appearances, and not for any real change. Collaboration doesn't exist, every PI fends for themselves and some PIs even forbid their team members to talk to people from other teams. People’s performance reviews are based on favoritism, thus your direct manager's “opinion” is taken as the absolute truth. They make you fill out your KPI’s and annual performance goals just for record keeping, no one even reads them. In reality your performance is based entirely on the line manager’s personal opinion rather than how you actually measured up to your annual goals nor the company’s overall performance.