LEO iLab is on an incredible journey, join if you can! - Product Manager LEO Innovation Lab Employee Review

A lot of talented and inspiring people Nice location Great food Tremendous parties

Toxic environment People stepping on others to gain success No clear management structure Culture made insecure people become even more insecure Unclear expectations

Enormous budget, a handful of really great and talented colleagues and whatever hardware & software you needed

The senior management preached a 'no hierarchy and flat organisation', but practised the complete opposite - in fact, their management style and methodology was aggressive and it seemed as if you constantly had to guess your way through everything and look over your shoulder. Lack of transparency in management decisions led to a repeated overruling of decisions - one day you were working on a project, sure of the direction and the next day everything was changed without you being the least bit involved in the decision-making process - at some point one of the teams even got fired for no apparent reason! As an innovation lab it should be swift and embracing change, failures and learnings, but not if this compromises quality of products and the well-being of the employees. It is as if senior management believed that they could just dress up as a tech startup to be a tech startup, but HQ (LEO Pharma) dictated most processes and the projects were shallow and not even challenging status quo the least bit - seemed mostly to be PR-stunts to be honest. Furthermore, the CEO exudes sexism and has a very male-chauvinistic behaviour (i.e. invites the men out for beers after work, but never the women, who he talks to in a slightly jokingly condescending tone, as if that was funny...). I was not the only woman experiencing this by far.