It’s not the mon­ey: The lat­est For­tune list of the top 10 bio­phar­mas to work for in­cludes a few sur­prise play­ers

By any stan­dard, Acor­da Ther­a­peu­tics is one of the most deeply trou­bled biotechs in the in­dus­try. Com­pa­ny ex­ecs lost their big cash cow drug well be­fore they were able to build a new fran­chise. They’ve had 2 rounds of lay­offs in deep re­or­ga­ni­za­tions and the pres­sure to per­form must be in­tense.

It’s al­so one of the top 10 most pop­u­lar places to work in bio­phar­ma, ac­cord­ing to For­tune mag­a­zine.

Al­to­geth­er 94% of the staffers par­tic­i­pat­ing in For­tune’s anony­mous sur­vey said that Acor­da, where Ron Co­hen has ruled the roost for years, was a great place to work. Big ma­jori­ties all agreed that Acor­da’s fa­cil­i­ties con­tributed to a great work­ing en­vi­ron­ment, where you are made to feel wel­come, take off time as need­ed and share a pride of ac­com­plish­ment.

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