Pros
Good company to have a startup in your career due to diversity in role&responsibility; however this is dependent on having a mentor.
Opportunity to have more insight in the stakeholders activities just to understand the impact of your work and possibility to influence processes or ways of working.
Cons
Salaries are below the pharma industry median level. Very small % given on annual reviews (if it happens)
Very basic benefits package
Never getting the contractual bonus; you are lucky to actually get something
Resistance to change - Very catastrophic for regulatory, especially when their field is going through a lot
Poor systems or actually no systems used at all (they might rely on an Excel to track the product details)
Missing deadlines - renewals or sunset clause exception
No clear communication between regulatory, quality and commercial when it come to product discontinuation
Poorly written SOPs
No accountability from management and blame culture
No clear direction from management and they play a very interesting disappearing act
No transparency and collaboration within the regulatory department-everyman to himself
Keeping things "hidden" and quietly sort out problems without clear communication with stakeholders
Products have no dossiers, it is just a mess, especially after the cyber attack, as regulatory department lost a lot of data
Lack of integrity when it comes to communication with agencies
Workload not balanced between team members, some are reaching their burning out point while others are playing candy crush games
Overall "Ethypharm ways of working" and "it is what it is"
No training offered for junior staff or any team members in general. No development plans being considered