Vantaggi
I worked in PPD's Biopharm Release and Stability group in Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin for more than two years. Pros: Good benefits. The scienstists doing the work are nice and fun to be with.
Svantaggi
Cons include: No career path for Technical Project Managers. The only logical progression is into people management, so please skip being in this role and go straight to the Associate Group Leader position. Constant reorganization. I knew someone who had six different supervisors within the span of 12 months. Management from a couple different departments were unexpectedly fired as part of reorganization. Some of these people were well liked and respected. Why wouldn't you want to retain these people in different positions? Lots of people put on PIPs when the problem is the overwhelming workload or uncommunicated expectations. For example, how can a single person be responsible for drafting and closing 30 deviations and investigations within 30 days? That's not a failure of the employee but of the employer. Extremely poor management and leadership skills among the people managers.