Vantaggi
You’ll gain a lot of valuable experience. This is because the client services team is drastically understaffed so everyone needs to do the work of 3 people
Svantaggi
Absolutely everything. First and foremost, salaries are at least 20% lower than what they should be given the amount of work involved as well that it is highly technical within Pharma. They’re able to get away with this by almost exclusively hiring kids straight out of school. Management/HR’s roles are to crack the whip and make sure you’re constantly producing despite the CEO and president always telling us how much they care about work life balance. There is absolutely no way to carve out a reasonable workload without falling behind or missing deadlines which in turn leads to more micromanagement. The only people who get promoted are the ones working 12 hour days on a daily basis while also being involved in their stupid “committees” so it’s a lot of social politics as well As for the work itself, Med comms is a very biology centric field so if you don’t have a genuine interest in science/biology, you’ll be bored out of your mind every day. Also the clients, being major Pharma brands, are extremely rude and demanding so there is little gratification in executing a project on their behalf. TLDR - if you want to work crazy hours doing the most tedious work imaginable at well below market rate with a bunch of fake women gaslighting you, then HSC is your home!