Vantaggi
- Fantastic atmosphere within the team, during work and during work breaks as well. - Challenging and interesting opportunities within R&D to develop products. - Involvement from early design stage to product launch, including intellectual property, analytical development, data analysis, pipeline development and data interpretation. While roles and duties are split and defined within projects, during the life cycle of the products under development you will get a chance to touch all these different aspects, to different extent. It's not easy to have the full spectrum in a company, and gives a sense of fulfilment. I am happy at Inivata, I feel challenged, I feel listened to and respected for my scientific and technical expertise, and for my ideas. I can shape the development of the products within the R&D, and this is rewarding and intellectually stimulating. I was doing well in academia before and did not know what to expect, but so far I find this great.
Svantaggi
- The interaction with the US side is not always easy: especially regulatory / QA, project management and business development have requests that, even if reasonable, are not always communicated clearly and timely. It's a joint responsibility from both UK and US site, not blaming any part, but something to improve. - Senior management people sometimes change their mind too often (I guess it's quite common in companies, but it's none the less disruptive), product specifications are not always communicated very clearly and they keep changing in some cases, following external comments (advisory boards, conferences, clinicians, market research) rather than a pre-defined solid path.