Pros
- Generous benefits - Annual bonus (based on company performance) - Good relocation benefits if moving > 50 miles from original residence - Generally good support for obtaining needed resources - Moderately good compensation (caveat: the DC metro is a very expensive cost-of-living area, so money doesn't go very far)
Cons
- WORST biotech in terms of promotion of non-PhDs to scientist-level positions, regardless of success, years of experiences, or contributions - Career stagnation - Poor and inexperienced middle-managers, put in place because of who they know or the degree they have, not because of their managerial competence - Rigid, multi-layered, and top-heavy hierarchy - Frustrating IT support - Creativity is not encouraged and can be held against you - Wasteful with purchases (discarding a piece of equipment in the name of "organization" only to re-purchase the same equipment a month later) - A lot of talk but not much action or follow-through