Notes from the field.
Essays on hiring, pharma, and the gap between classroom and offer letter.
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- June 22, 20269 min read
Pharma & Biotech Interview Questions: The Insider's Guide for QA, Manufacturing, and Research Roles
After eight years on both sides of pharma hiring tables, here is the honest playbook: the questions you will actually be asked, the answers that separate offers from polite rejections, and the gap between what colleges teach and what hiring managers verify in ninety seconds.
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Why I Left Academia (and Why I Still Teach).
This is not a story about disillusionment. It is a story about a distinction that took me years to understand: the difference between a classroom and the institution that contains it.
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What Pharma Manufacturing Taught Me About Hiring.
After years on pharmaceutical manufacturing floors and inside hiring conversations, the same failure kept appearing. Not talent failure. Process failure. And pharma’s oldest discipline had already solved it.
Read essay → - May 29, 20266 min read
The Degree Isn't the Problem. The Presentation Is.
After eight years inside hiring rooms, classrooms, and manufacturing floors, the pattern is unmistakable: talent is evenly distributed, but the language of selling that talent is not.
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