Not great to begin with, the acquisition made it worse - Engineer Medidata Solutions Employee Review

Medidata Solutions is a company that purports to offer a suite of software offerings to help pharmaceutical and clinical treatment companies conduct clinical trials. It handles various analytics, database, and paperwork processing requirements for running clinical trials. The software barely functions — I'm skeptical of any medication about which data has been collected by Medidata software. Releasing is impossible, making new features is difficult, new initiatives are given big announcements and then disappear. There is a tragic lack of impostor syndrome suffered by management and engineering people who I would not trust to remember their own names without checking federally recognized identification. There is a mendacious and toxic culture of talking a big game about diversity and inclusion while simultaneously shutting down diversity pushes, firing women in leadership, and looking every other way than at the rampant sexual harassment. C-level executives are known to yawn through town hall questions about how to increase gender parity in leadership roles, or simply browse their phone. The CTO likened his experience of leaving his high-paying executive role at his previous organization to join a high-paying executive role at this organization to a woman suffering career-debilitating exploitation and ostracization. He said this. Out loud, to the entire technical team. The founders used to be good at internal propaganda, but they are barely trying since the company was acquired by a large French multinational company, whose designs on Medidata technology could not be clearer: they plan to clean house, jettison the garbage tech, and replace it with competently developed software by underpaid engineers based in India, all while retaining the industry recognized brand of Medidata. There was a town hall where the CEO giggled like a school boy talking about his recent trip to Paris before announcing benefit rollbacks. A lot of the folks here are at their first job, or their first job in tech, and are incapable or unwilling to recognize the dysfunction. It should be so much easier to build and release software without having to worry about a sniveling product manager taking credit for the work or unfixable bugs making it into production. Unaddressed tech debt from 2002 still guides costly build decisions. Customer-facing UI looks like a Lycos under construction banner and the effort to make it better is being managed by people who don't know how to fix it. Trying to get anything is exhausting and not worth it. This place sucks, steer clear.