Across our organization, full and part-time rotations have been a powerful development tool, accelerating growth through new challenges. 90% of our major business units have offered these opportunities to help employees expand their experience and explore new paths.

For Alex, getting visibility into how teams collaborate across the product lifecycle helped turn learning into momentum and curiosity into growth.

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I learned a lot during my rotation at Foundation Medicine. I learned about what I like in a role and got to try out new things and see what I do and don't like. I learned a lot about how Foundation Medicine operates overall by getting visibility into other teams and to see how, even outside of R&D, different teams come together to help accomplish our goals as a company.

From a skill set perspective, I learned new technical skills that I was able to apply in my rotation and that I now have to apply to future roles.

Before rotating, I was working on the computational discovery team, which is an early research team, and that is aligned pretty well with my background as a researcher in genetics.

But my rotation was on the product development team, and what that allowed me to do was get visibility into how we take a pretty well-formed product and go through the development and validation life cycle, and what that takes.

And that was a really interesting experience for me that also opened my eyes to what other roles could be for me at the company. And this rotation allowed me to leverage those skills to then get a new role at Foundation Medicine coming out of a rotation. So now I sit on the Computational Biology Analytics team, where I help to support the validation of later-stage products. I got to see a whole new side of the company and of the product development life cycle, and now I'm getting to put that into practice with a new role, and I'm really excited about that.