Dascena reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)
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Andrew Pucher

36% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Dascena has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dascena employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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71 reviews
1.0
Mar 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There’s no good reasons to work for this company.

Cons

Dascena is the absolute worst company I’ve worked for in my life . They use and abuse you until they don’t need you any more . If your a young intelligent graduate they will take all of your ideas and use it to their benefit . I would not work for this company if offered the opportunity . I didn’t learn my lesson by reading the reviews first . There’s is absolutely no pros to this place and they have been calling there company a start up for 3 years . They gossip about your job and they will continue to hire but claim they don’t have the money . Honestly worst decision of my life . Additionally , they keep all their family and friends regardless of there experience . Not to mention they have massive layoffs ever 3-4 months . Don’t get to comfortable here.

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Dascena Response
5y
We appreciate your feedback and apologize that you had this experience. We pride ourselves on what we accomplish each day towards our goal of precision medicine. We will continue to improve in all areas. We wish you the very best.
1.0
Mar 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None i could think of

Cons

* lack of communication from upper management * no clear directions They hire and fire within few weeks. This is no joke. Be it a company folk, test site staff or lab staff, they fire you easily. Mass layoffs, false promises, they pay you huge, but dont fall in that trap. Its the way to get you laid off. There is no job stability. Peace of mind and job stability is way better than huge pay. They just got some fund from federal and using it for research purposes. They take swabs from people coming in for covid test and use it for other dna research works apart from doing covid tests.they are good in getting signatures from these people in randomn consent forms. Please make sure you put signature at the right fields when you go for covid testing at dascena.

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Dascena Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We value all of our current and former employees' feedback. Because federal privacy laws govern patients’ health information, it is not Dascena policy to substantively respond to negative reviews on a ratings website, even if they provide misleading, unfair, or inaccurate information. Please feel free to contact HR and discuss any concerns. We wish you the best.
1.0
Apr 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not much but if you really really want to, you can read some of these "positive" reviews here. Maybe some of those things are applicable.

Cons

Just looking at the fact that there are a lot of negative reviews for a company should notify you of some red flags. The fact that they are an "engaged employer" and having to do damage control on all the negative reviews also speaks volumes about how they are desperate to hide the negative side of the company. My sincerest apologies to whoever was assigned this role of responding to every single negative review. Hopefully you will find success in your career and one day the CEO will actually put some effort into addressing these issues himself instead of asking an employee on the marketing team to do it. The company has a bit of seed funding but machine learning in a healthcare setting is pretty much still not working as well as we would like. I've seen a lot of healthcare providers who aren't as technological get on board with using Dascena's product in their hospital (does something sound weird there?) Personally, I personally had a much more optimistic and positive outlook going into working for them but realized within 2 weeks that this place is good at selling their image but at the end of the day it's just another ratchet "silicon valley" healthcare startup. Metric driven. CEO has pretty high expectations that you can achieve the impossible. There is also very little spending on company employee happiness. Everyone is definitely not paid for what they are worth in the market. Benefits are minimal. There are a lot of reviews about random layoffs--and sadly they are true.

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Dascena Response
5y
Thank you for the feedback. Here at Dascena we are committed to making continuous efforts to ensure a welcoming, transparent, and collaborative environment for all of our employees. We are deeply disappointed to hear about your experience. We wish you the best.
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