Worst. Senior. Management. Ever. - Anonymous employee Pharmacyclics Employee Review

Any positive review you read here is a testament to the obliviousness that can be induced by sleeplessness. Senior management has low levels of operational awareness or micromanage to a point of inefficiency. CEO backed into a billion dollars and thinks it is the magic of LRH that got him there and wants to share it with the SPs with an Orwellian newspeak 'Everyone is a genius' concept. COO is utterly out of her depth (Pharmacyclics' own Sarah Palin) she has stated publicly it is a source of pride that nearly 2/3rds of employees are women. I am no statistician but in a meritocratic hiring system shouldn't that be closer to 1/2? COO's one demonstrated skill I have personally observed is carrying the CEOs soda can. The VP in charge of my group is dishonest, incompetent or both, so much so that they have a turnover rate in the group for 2014 approached 20%. Annual reviews are arbitrary and capricious. People are dismissed without cause. Many good employees are simply treading water waiting for stocks to vest. Zero work life balance, it is run like microsoft in the early 90s where you are not a team player if you don't jettison your family and live at the office. Senior Management look at their better direct reports as threats and squash an career development. Promotion of lickspittles and professional complainers is the rule.