Arcus Biosciences reviews

-pay is not competitive with the market -no work-life balance -long hours of work(over 40+hrs/week regularly) -Pay and promotions are based of years of service or retention, not merit. -They don't reward quality of work and work ethic and reward those who do less or make more mistakes. -Inexperienced managers -Sheltering incompetence and those whom are a liability. -HR does nothing to help the employee. -Will not address issues - sweeps under the rug to further escalate and push good employees to leave, while retraining problem/abusive employees.

Only bad things are incompetent managers. Environment for RAs are probably the worst, so if you’re an RA and you get into a bad team/have a bad manager.. Tough luck - it’s like you’re getting hazed and if you speak up, you’ll be punished for it guaranteed. The hiring managers will LIE and act sweet and helpful as much as possible when you’re interviewing but completely disappear once you get the job because all they needed to do was find someone to save their job - completely two faced. No one will care about what you have to say because it’s your managers word over yours. If you have a teammate who does absolutely nothing (while being paid as much or even more than you are), you will have to foot the weight of the rest of the workload without complaining because managers do nothing here but yell at you then go run personal errands for themselves and lazy people will never leave since no one gets fired here for minor things. Even when doing someone else’s workload including your own, you will still be told you didn’t do enough. If a colleague harasses you, and you try to ignore them, your manager will pull you aside and tell you to stop ignoring your harasser, because it’s “unprofessional” and threaten to write it on your evaluation causing you lose your bonus and any possible promotion.. It’s ironic because once you go on vacation, your manager doesn’t even know what to do and are completely incapable of doing even a fraction of the work they assign you! They either don’t do it and wait for you to come back and give you even more work to punish you for going on vacation or they’ll assign it to someone else. So I highly encourage all RAs to go on long vacations all at once! If you are an RA, avoid this place like it’s the plague, they do not care about you even a little bit. Don’t worry, if you are a scientist, you will be taken care of very well!