Stay away, run away from Clinical Applications and Standards(CAS) team in clinical data management (CDM)!! - Anonymous employee AstraZeneca Employee Review

1.0
Dec 6, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Medimmune itself is a great company. The team members are knowledgeable and personable.

Cons

CAS is the technical clinical study build team(EDC) within clinical data management(CDM) The team morale has suffered tremendously. Micromanagement and Cronyism of the worst kind. Ineffectiveness, incredible incompetence, insecurity and a hopeless communication are all hall marks of this group. Team members put up with it just because they need a job. There is NO scope for technical growth, independence or empowerment The entire CDM group knows this and they put up with it simply because they are forced to. This has created a toxic work culture in and otherwise great group. It is so bad that two new full time employees( including a senior manager) quit in the recent past. This can be verified via linkedin. The CAS group has no credibility within the CDM team and internal customers actively avoid wherever possible. Complaints to HR unfortunately go no where. It is a suffocating experience to be in the CAS team. There is no growth, team morale is at its lowest ever.

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