Do your research on company and management - Anonymous employee IPSEN Employee Review

Thank you for your review. I think the title of your post is very true; everybody should research a company before they join it. As you know there have been some big changes in senior management and the culture is changing too. I believe that the cons you list are firmly entrenched in the past and that they do not represent the direction that we are heading in. We agree that our people are the best contributors to our culture and IPSEN strengthens its culture one great hire at a time, and you are right: good leaders do attract and help retain the best talent, so we try our best to attract and develop great leaders. However I’m not sure what you mean when you speak of ‘the rank and file’, ‘warm bodies’ and ‘vicious people’; I’ve never heard a manager or a leader refer to anyone of their colleagues in those terms so I think we will struggle to help you ‘discern the difference’ here. How do you suggest we fix this? Going back to your title, if you researched the company today would get the same results that you would have found a year ago, two years? I doubt it. I believe that this serves as evidence that we are getting better and we are on the right track to being great. This is our journey and an adventure and you are welcome to take part in it.