Fast growing, cutting edge biotech company - Engineer Natera Employee Review

4.0
Oct 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Participating in building the next generation of health care products. Working with exceptional people in engineering, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. Actually building products that help people. Company also has nice perks such as catered lunches, stocked kitchens and weekly happy hours.

Cons

The company grew a lot, very quickly. This could probably have been managed better.

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Natera Response
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It's fantastic to hear your feedback that you feel you're participating in advancing technology and products that help people. You are right; we did grow very quickly. There is a special culture at Natera initially set by those who began very early with the company and we want to see that culture continue to thrive with our ever-growing work force. We count on your voice and feedback on how we achieve this. In addition, we are implementing other mechanisms for feedback such as 360 reviews and targeted engagement strategies customized to address the particular needs of each department. Although culture is a continual work in progress, it is particularly helpful when employees take the initiative to participate in our internal surveys and reach out to HR or Culture teams to help maintain and enhance our culture to be it's best.

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Fast-paced environment with less consideration for slower coworkers, coworkers that felt cliquey, and management that seemed distant and unapproachable. Getting along with coworkers was the toughest part for me. Some coworkers seemed unapproachable. Had trouble feeling a sense of belonging on the team with seemingly constant critique about my performance with very little mentioning of people seeing improvement.

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