Stay Away - Anonymous employee Natera Employee Review

2.0
Oct 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Catered lunches (3x a week, but there is always enough food to feed the team for the rest of the week Great office location (gym on site) Decent benefits (but not great, considering this is a women's health company)

Cons

Where do I start? -No trust in employees and recognition for the work done -Constant distraction by sometimes conflicting, concurrent goals -Leaders have no focus, but they justify their behavior calling it 'enterpreneurial' and that means managing by chaos and fear -Goals are set without clear reasoning and are real 'monkey numbers' (no reason, no rime except to set unreachable goals). -Thosewho do well are falling into the same trap of 'management without focus and fear'). They have managed to be appearing busy and focused on whatever executives consider important. -Benefits: This company is wondering why its so hard to attract talent (particularly engineers) when benefits are sub par (how about paying for parental leave?) -Work life balance only exist if executives are on vacation: late night and weekend work is almost expected (to get the work done with the imposed deadline)

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Natera Response
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Thank you for the shout out on the positives: catered lunches, great location, gym, etc. Thanks also for being candid about your perspectives on the challenges. Like many recent IPOs, we are continually developing our leadership and supervisory capabilities. We’ve made some good progress over the last year or so. In fact, if you filter on ratings from current employees only, you’ll see a different picture of Natera…progress is happening so stay tuned!

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