December PSA: had an interview with a Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Director and they asked me what a scrum master is, as seen on my resume. 🚩🚩🚩. When I explained what Agile is, they said “yeah we do that, but we call it something else.” 🤣👀.

Needless to say I withdrew my application from what I thought was a dream job 🙄✌🏼🤣

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Work there and can confirm they lack PM knowledge and push on the “science “

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Reach out to the PM group to join the tool. The more groups that use it the more useful the tool is. There is a lot of data information that is useful across groups... And you can use different capabilities already developed and used by other groups.
Msg me if youre interested.

I interviewed with them a couple of years back. The culture was a red flag to me too. Glad I didn't join and you should be too!

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? Is this an attempt at a life sciences consulting meme

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Haha, it should be a meme! It’s a PSA to steer clear and save your time

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I’m assuming you were interviewing for a product role.

It’s tough, but agile/scrum and other practices we consider standard in many scenarios aren’t common in pharmaceutical companies. And that’s probably ok — the requirements for pharmaceutical products are pretty standard. The regulatory requirements aren’t really going to evolve on a week by week basis — and the product will have a set launch date with almost no iteration afterwards except LCM. The requirements up front are so rigid - you couldn’t launch and recruit for a pivotal clinical trial and then decide your primary endpoints should be different.

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I’ve seen several companies trying to adopt digital therapeutics try to adapt it as much as possible

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