AstraZeneca Director, Clinical Development reviews

Limited salary growth each year. Lack of promotion opportunity. Longer career path to Senior CRA. Only local manager role on career path in Taiwan. Even with promotion, local study manager's scope is different/narrower from CTM or CPM in CRO. Monthly salary would be subpar but generally good after bonus, but not preferrable for someone who has loans to take care of.

Gaslighting (withhold training information, then back track and tease CRAs and put them down for not knowing something that no one told them). * Bad company culture - CRAs and managers act like they are in a race to put down each other in front of other people and throw other people under the bus all the time for attention, including grown middle-age women who should know better by now. They assign CRAs 25 sites at a time, and they yell at them if they don’t have 8 visits/16 days on site per month, even though they claim their minimum is 8 days on site per month. Also, your sites will be located all across the country, so if you’re in the northwest, expect to have more than half of your sites in the southeast. No In house CRAs, you’ll be doing the job of about 5 people. They yell at you for not responding to emails while traveling.