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Well, I work for a pharmaceutical company.
Downsides:
Everyone here thinks they know everything (yet surprisingly they have no concept of what drives business)
They dismiss everything that goes even slightly against their long-held beliefs.
There is this underlying BS quotient. The company (and most employees) believe they are out to help the patient while in the same meeting they will agree to boost the price of a drug since it's now gone generic. This way they can get as much money as possible from the customers who are either the most loyal to our product or who absolutely require the name brand drug.
Sales blames marketing and marketing blames sales and no one is ever held accountable.
The pharma industry seems to think they are the most punished and most regulated industry in the world. They think they face challenges that no other industry does. Of course they're wrong as every industry faces regulations, lawsuits, business challenges, etc. But since the vast majority of the people in this industry have only worked in this industry they have no clue about anything else.
The Positives:
They pay me pretty well.
Decent amount of vacation time (3 weeks plus we more or less get the week between Xmas and New Years off)
There are some great people here who I enjoy talking to (or at least I did before I got transferred to a new building)
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