I liked the people I spoke directly with in my interview. My interview was pretty brief, I know interview practices have changed substantially since I was hired on.

Truly enjoy my specific team and many people I work with across the R&D dpt, many are very able and effective scientists and fun and engaging to work with.

A lot of effort and company resources are spent on trying to maintain appearances rather than paying employees competitive wages for the amount of work being dumped on them.

You are able to work pretty independently if that's your preference. Depends on your group. You have the freedom to present your ideas to management and working from home, if possible, is being embraced.

Simply put the company values do not reflection the actual work atmosphere. I have never been employed in a more weirdly political research environment. Making opportunity for advancement available is vital to their longevity as a company.

Leadership ranges from really admirable and supportive of their employees to abysmal and completely unworthy of their position, in general they don't really care about what the lower rung of employees have issues with, fail to actually address or solve them.