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I agree. Big Pharma has always presented a problem for me with respect to hiring. I have chemist that develop coatings and other materials development research related efforts of the organic chemistry flavor, but not related to drugs or delivery systems. The issue is that Big Pharma pays well, but is often a very volatile career path. Lots of up swings and many many layoffs. So my folks always want the big salaries afforded by Big Pharma (up to 30% more due to increased risk), but they don't understand why their friends who work for BigPharma are the first laid off.

[Mr. Peabody]

So true. I’ve worked far a large biopharma company for 8 years and we’ve had several layoffs. The low hanging fruit of drug development are gone now so here we are.

One thing no one has mentioned is immigration. About one half of the scientists I work with come from other countries. Do we need to import scientists in this field?