Avantages
Circulating DNA is super cool! :-D The senior management is SO bad that it creates a good solidarity at the lower level. People will always be there to listen, advice, comfort : YOU WILL NEED IT!
Inconvénients
The culture is very bad and atmosphere violent. Constructive recommendations from staff are ignored. People who complain are fired creating an atmosphere of fear. Lots of high level people joined the company because they are 'good friend of'. We might have been unlucky statistically as most of those people do not seem to be competant. Last year the UK lost lots of their staff, 3 of them were made redundant (including a woman during her maternity leave) the rest resigned. As a consequence, they hire lots of consultants. Lots of the knowledge is gone and it will be hard as a newcomer to do a quality job. The upper management will not recognise that. This atmosphere is SO bad that a couple of months ago an employee gave back his badge and computer one morning and left without doing his notice period. He had no job to go to and had never done that in his carrier before. If you do still join the company learn the company values and mission sentence as you will have to tell them by heart under the Inivata flag watched by the CPO (Chief Propaganda Officer). This title of course does not exist but the joke illustrates quite well the company culture. The company might change one day but make sure it has before you join.