Great place to work, but just one bad apple. - Clinical Lab Associate II Personalis Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience for your career in NGS. Very young & ambitious lab rats! Free snacks, drinks, fruits, noodles, & frozen dinners!!! Good benefits and open to early career young talent. Very clean & organized labs.

Cons

Avoid the Library Prep team at all costs. The supervisor is unapproachable and always in a mood. She even has a mood indicator on her desk that is stuck on “anti social”. She uses very demeaning unprofessional language that is borderline harassment, and constantly gossips about other managers, teams, and even her own subordinates. Other than that, any other team is great & everyone else is super nice, supportive, and approachable. Would highly recommend extractions to start at, then move out of lab ops to research.

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Personalis Response
4y
Thank you for sharing. We are sorry you had a bad experience. We wish you all the best.

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5.0
Oct 23, 2024
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Pros

I really enjoyed my work and the team was very helpful!

Cons

None that I can think of

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Personalis Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your work and found the team to be helpful.
4.0
Jan 7, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a very exciting mission to be a part of, and 2025 was definitely a year that saw some great developments for this company's reputation and growth. This is a company where most every role will allow you to grow and contribute immensely. Almost everybody seems to become an expert in something that makes them a respected and important part of the team. I have felt very advocated for by my managers and team, since the beginning of the hiring process. They very much want to see me succeed I feel. The office's amenities are quite nice for being a small company, and there's still fairly good flexibility for hybrid work on most teams.

Cons

It's a 24/7 operation, so I and many others will have to think about work even on off days. It's not a strict expectation, but responding to emails or checking messages will often happen outside of the typical 9-5. That all said, I have not felt like my own work/life balance is miserable (I cannot say the same for everyone, though). It takes quite a while to hit a stride of really knowing the ins and outs here. So much knowledge on how to do things is just in peoples' heads, and the experts are frequently too busy to really sit down and walk you through it as you onboard. Learning can take quite a while, and may be overwhelming at first. There are some people who have clearly taken on or been assigned too much responsibility for one person to reasonably maintain, which just doesn't feel fair to them. And it puts pressure on those folks to never really take true time off.

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