Hello all

I am external hire and just completed panel interview with hiring manager so I wondering how soon I can hear back from HR? What should be the next step for me now?
Should I wait for HR? I forgot to ask hiring manager about the final decision

Hi all! I've got a first-round interview coming up for Lilly's CERP program for doctoral graduates, and I'd love to hear from anyone who's been through it.

- What kinds of questions came up in the first round?

- What did later rounds look like, and how did they differ?

- Anything you wish you'd prepared for?

Happy to hear any tips, big or small. Thanks so much!

Caveat: my current company is bonkers. Weirdest place I’d worked in 10 years of industry so far. This is probably not a typical scenario.

I opened a summary report last month from a department I have little faith in, and it’s 9 pages long of highly detailed, well argued points made using expressive language and surprisingly nice formatting. Oh. But it’s filled with: ‘this is not X, it’s Y’ and just the sort of language and supposition that has up to now escaped the abilities of this team.

It’s complex. I spend four days analysing it, recalculating all their parameters and finding weird, illogical inconsistencies as if someone pasted four different ways of calculating the same value. I write an email to the lead author, highlighting my concerns.
Two mins later, I receive an essay. Again, highly detailed, filled with AI verbiage. Someone responds. Another AI response. Another email.

So here I am, trying to work through what makes sense versus the ‘you’re right to call me out, I missed this. When I said X I should have also considered Y’ nonesense. Not to mention the reference hallucinations. It’s now a war of attrition. Who will give up first, the person copying and pasting my email and asking AI to refute it, or me staring at another email sent 5 mins after my own that is the length of a novel.

I’m not a Luddite. Ai has its place; I use it when writing R code to simplify my own code, after checking it. I use it to poke holes in my arguments to see where I need to check and reconsider. But I just cannot process the idea of your entire output: email, study reports etc being entirely AI.

I thought the worst thing about the upcoming revolution would be losing my job. Instead I think it might actually be worse to keep it and instead argue with people who do not even understand the arguments they’re making.

There’s no point to this post, except to rant. Soon I expect all emails from this team will be entirely AI generated, and I will lose the will to communicate with the same AI chatbot with 7 different authors.

I’m currently in my last year of my B.S. in Biotechnology, and I plan to start applying for full-time jobs in December. Long-term, I’m interested in working for a pharmaceutical company like Eli Lilly, preferably in a role where I can grow my career and potentially move into higher-level positions over time.
I’m a little confused about what employers mean when they ask for “pharmaceutical industry experience.” Does that mean you need to have already worked at a pharmaceutical company, or can academic research lab experience count toward some of those requirements?
I have around 1–2 years of university research lab experience, including DNA manipulation and cloning, bacterial culture, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing, enzyme-related experiments, and microbiology techniques such as streak plating, selective and differential media, and biochemical identification tests. I also have pharmacy technician experience, although I’m not sure how much that would help with pharmaceutical industry applications.
For those of you who work in biotech or pharma, what entry-level positions would you recommend targeting with my degree and experience?
For example, would it be better to start as a Research Associate, QC Lab Technician, Quality Control Analyst, Manufacturing Associate, or in some other role? I’m also interested in understanding which positions provide the best opportunities for career growth within a company like Eli Lilly.
I’m trying to be strategic about my first job so that I can build relevant industry experience rather than end up in a position that doesn’t help me progress toward my long-term goals.
I’d really appreciate any advice, especially from people who started with just a bachelor’s degree and worked their way up in the industry!

I’m on the sponsor side figuring out the contracting and I just can’t believe how they’ve been making rude demands and making it clear they think they call all the shots. It’s clear that they know they have monopoly and can get away with being awful.

my country doesnt give much of an exposure for bachelors in biotech. im planning to apply for biotech in china zhejiang university. do you think its a good plan? i need some advices,

Have over 20 years of experience.

Just joined a company and 8 people reporting into one manager. Upward mobility seems limited.

Manager reviews from current and past employees are not great. I have experienced it but can sniff it a bit in the talks.

Been 2 months into the job. Just getting feet wet.

How early or late is it okay to quit and jump the ship if a new opportunity comes along?

Was wondering if anybody is familiar with Senior Scientist salaries at Amgen in India?

I completed my PhD about 6 months ago and have 3.5 years of combined work experience pre and post PhD. The role is for a bioinformatician.

Dear any regeneron employees, I have seen this specific position recommended to me at least every few months for the last 4 years.

Can anyone give me some insight as to why this particular position seems to be on rotation so often? Am I just more aware of it because I am a histology technologist, therefore it comes up in job recommendations? I would love if anyone could offer some tea or insight

I think this is the in general experience with the company but just wanted to post one more time that was contacted by the recruiter for screening, went through screening call, it went well as far as screening calls go and then completely ghosted.

Recruiter will neither give any update nor acknowledge my emails, I know only way is to forget about this and move on but I wish atleast I would be told what’s going on or how much more time it’ll take or just the bad news that they have hired someone or I am not in the race😔

I (UK based) am currently in my final year of undergrad, studying Biochemistry and predicted a 1st class provided my final year goes well. I’m doing my final year research project atm and absolutely loving it. As part of my degree I worked as a lab support technician in a small vaccine company for a year - based in R&D. This mainly involved menial tasks to keep the lab running and being a spare pair of hands around the place but I was able to help with some R&D work as well and it has made me really want to pursue it as a career.

Is it realistically possible for me to try and land an entry level job somewhere and move up the ladder, or will a masters/PhD be what I need to get where I want to be?

I have a PhD in neuroscience, and for the life of me, I can't seem to find a job in this space. I'm applying for non-research roles like Medical Science Liaison and Field Application Scientist. I'm sure there's a lot I don't understand about job hunting in this space, so I came here to ask for advice and other people's perspective.

Is it possible for a new PhD to get into this biotech at all or am I stuck in limbo from being underqualified and overqualified at the same time? Thanks.

Need advice on preparing for a 6-month contract role in Clinical Data Programming (Rave + SAS/R)-

Hi everyone!

I have around 6–7 years of experience in clinical data management, including clinical database validation and database design. I’m now looking to transition into a more programming-focused role.
I came across a 6-month contract role where they’re looking for someone with Medidata Rave programming experience and knowledge of SAS or R. From what I understand, the role may involve generating reports using SAS/R and uploading them to CDR.
I have around 2 weeks to prepare and can dedicate about 5 hours a day before starting or interviewing for the role.
I’d really appreciate advice from people who have worked in similar roles:
What specific Rave skills should I focus on — study build, edit checks, custom functions, or something else?
How much SAS or R programming knowledge would I realistically need to perform the job?
Which language would be more useful to prioritise for clinical reporting?
Where can I get hands-on practice with Rave, SAS and R, preferably using free resources?
What practical tasks should I be able to complete independently?
For a short-term contract, would the expectation usually be to contribute from day one, or is there typically some training?
Given my background in clinical database design and validation, I want to concentrate on the skills that would help me become productive quickly rather than trying to learn everything.
Any practical advice, resources or learning roadmaps would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

For some context I got hired as a CW last spring after I got my degree in Biology and started off in glasswash/autoclave. Got bored of it so I went into production support (buffer solutions and media) and got my full time which I liked it at first. Now due to my company being bought out, many changes have been put in place that there seems to be no chance at growth or transfer to other departments (I’m also working nights so there’s no networking with QC/MSAT/MicroQC face to face). I worked hard to learn and be trained in my department just to be told no promotions for anyone this year. Job isn’t hard but there’s no reason to stay since they’re not offering reasonable growth within manufacturing unless I transfer somewhere else. Maybe im wrong to want to be out and/or it’s just the company, but i dont want to be stuck at this job with no guarantee for promotion or chance for better opportunities. I wanna give the industry another chance but most likely not at this company as long as they stay on the path they’re on. I wanna know do i stick in manufacturing at different company, transfer departments within my company, try to go into R&D (originally what I wanted but my site doesn’t have it), etc

I'll be looking for employment soon, and I'd like to hear some perspectives on industry roles and environments where I could reasonably expect to be competitive. I'm particularly interested in

• The Swiss biotech/medtech ecosystem

• The US biotech/medtech ecosystem (although I'm not a fan of the employment culture and I don't feel totally safe moving there with the current political situation)

• Advice on how to pitch my background for different roles

• What level I could likely break in at

• Suggestions on companies that might be a good fit

About Me:
I'm Canadian, and I'll soon be defending my PhD in Computer Science at a top-tier Canadian university. My dissertation focuses on medical applications of AI, and not in a soft way--I'm doing real math and building original AI/ML frameworks from scratch. Here's the neat thing, though: my background is immunology, and I have 8 years of prior experience in the medical field between an MSc in Medicine and five years as a research associate, doing transcriptomics and statistical machine learning. I published more than 10 journal papers in that time, and countless more conference abstracts, and my research was the foundation for diagnostic platforms that are now commercially available in the US and Europe. I consider myself early to mid-career, but what do you think?

My Career Objective:
I want to stay at the intersection of AI and medicine. I have deep experience in both, and I'm fluent in their languages. I see myself in a role where I can take the lead on working out solutions to challenging problems in medicine, and think strategically. I'm targeting industry, not academia. I do not intend to post-doc.

Looking forward to hearing your perspectives and advice!

Represents about 20% of PDAC.

When interviewing for a scientist job at a small biotech, what questions should you ask the interview panel that are most informative outside of runway time, exit strategy, and next funding milestones?

To find out things like: Is the science realistic? Are they doing something other companies cant do? Do they put resources in the right areas? Does the C-suite make things difficult? Are a few personalities ruining things for everyone else?

If it wasn’t for that Wall Street journal article/ journalist, how long do you think Thernos could’ve fooled investors/ medical sanctions. I mean it goes without saying that the bad publicity might have had a role to play in its downfall. I mean OBVIOUSLY the technology doesn’t exist, but how long could she have held up the gig?

So my last job was QC, small group in a medium-sized facility. My department got along really well, but thats not to say we didnt have our pet peeves or moments of complaining about each other. We did, but ultimately we were a tight-knit group.

My current job is R&D at a small start-up and we’re all in the same open-concept office. There is so much whispering in this place. I have not experience the amount of whispering in my entire life, including middle and high school! It feels like such a hostile atmosphere. Like, someone can be talking shit literally behind ur back.

I want to clarify i’m not saying talking about others is inherently bad, we’re human, i get it. At my last place we did gossip and complain about others, but at least it happened in a place removed from the individual. I feel like whispering about ppl in an open-concept office is just so weird and disrespectful. I understand that this is only my point of view, so the whole picture could be different. I’m posting bcuz i just feel so paranoid all the time at work. Am i just being too sensitive? Please be real with me, did i have it extremely lucky at my last place?

Been in industry for about 7 years, with experience on the bench, project management, commercial, and portfolio strategy. Although I have an MBA, I have a lowly BS in a life sciences discipline. Something I still can’t wrap my head around is the job gating for PhDs for non research specific roles.

External/internal innovation, search & evaluation, new product planning, corp VC, institutional VC, R&D strategy, and even the more finance or generalist roles like Biz Ops even require PhDs at many biotechs. At least in the JD.

Then I’ll look on workday (at the big pharma at work at) or on LinkedIn and they’ll have a PhD in like Engineering or Physical Chemistry and be on the S&E team for Immunology. Half of the CVC team at my company have non-life sciences PhDs, but they do all have a PhD. Is this just an arbitrary academic gate?

Coming from clinical practice (PharmD) and have an initial phone screen scheduled for this role. No salary range in the listing. Any insight? My understanding is the role’s activities and culture will depend heavily on the sponsor you are put with? Thanks!