Vantaggi
Technology is not bad and decent. Pay is alright.
Svantaggi
Typical experience in in-office application scientist or operations, R&D assay development roles: 1. Leave home around 7:30am and arrive at the office by 8am. 2. Work from 8am until 7:30pm—this is considered the minimum expectation. 3. Reach home by 8pm, have dinner, and then resume work around 10pm for data analysis, which takes about 90 minutes. Submit data by midnight. Sleep ~5 hours and repeat the cycle. Management and culture: The management is highly unprofessional. Senior leaders in assay development have openly ridiculed their staff in degrading ways. On multiple occasions, team members have been reduced to tears—not for poor performance, but because they were unable to produce something by 8:30am that was requested at 2am the same night. Scientists are routinely pressured to skip lunch in order to accommodate unnecessary last-minute tasks dictated by directors. The directors themselves display little professionalism or aptitude for commercialization. They were hired through personal connections with the CEO rather than merit, and have virtually no meaningful experience outside this company. Instead of supporting their teams, they frequently resort to humiliation and verbal abuse. Workplace practices: Even when based in the U.S., employees requesting leave are met with comparisons to practices in Hong Kong—used as justification to deny or limit time off. Bottom line: Toxic culture, unrealistic expectations, and unqualified leadership. Run the other way