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A horribly toxic place that's now under bankruptcy protection - Anonymous employee Infectious Disease Research Institute Employee Review

1.0
28 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Used to be a great place with great people. Most of them are gone now and the rest are looking for jobs elsewhere.

Cons

Most people that used to work here and some that are still there are wonderful people with a big heart and true commitment to science, research, global health and each other, but they have not had had any decision-making power and have not been listened to at all. Last year the founder stepped and the guy he appointed to run the place (Corey Casper, CEO) overpromised all kinds of things and delivered none of them. Staff was not allowed to disclosed certain things to funders, the CEO kept painting a rosy picture, didn’t act in a timely manner, kept scientists in the dark and eventually laid a lot of them off, but kept their science. Not sure what he is thinking but his quotes to New York Times recently was all false information. There are multiple people that can attest to this. Run away as fast as you can. This could be your worst nightmare. Thin veneer and lip service only and it wears off very quickly.

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1.0
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Pros

Some of the brightest and most devoted researchers who desire to make positive change in the world.

Cons

IDRI in 2019 is it crisis. Management, fiscal, staffing, multiple issues. In the first third of 2019 IDRI shed more staff than they average in a year. CEO was made to vacate his position, and so went the Finance Officer (and Board member), HR Director (and borad member), long time staff Attorney, long time Communications Director, Governence Officer, etc. etc. and now shining research stars resign every month. One group of TB researchers resign in mass in the spring. Discussion of shutting down labs to pay the bills, encourages more staff to seek an out. For every year in the last five years, the IT dept hires another staff memebr who is bullied and eventually leaves. A flurry of new hires, to replace those who departed in mass, now resigning as IDRI's Operations Management is incompetent. Until this situation is corrected, and it may never be - new hires should consider themselves fodder in IDRI's employment chaos. Half the staff currently looking for a way to leave. I hope operations management wakes up in time.

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