Genentech reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,713 total reviews)
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83% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Genentech has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,713 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Genentech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
May 17, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Creative minds, intellectual people. Great deal of knowledge is shared among groups. Working at Genentech is great learning experience. Flexibility of work hours, iphones and macs, lunch meetings, respectable people

Cons

Pays lower than most other companies. Promotions are really unfair. Top management keeps getting promoted every 12 months and get credit for everything whereas the people who really do the work struggle for promotions and pay raise. Bureaucracy is common throughout the company. While people don't get to go to conferences top management happily do team building event in Napa drinking all the wine they could. The big important impact making projects are given to the chosen few. Most of the projects are stretched and have no meaning ful

2.0
May 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits Fair overall compensation Good programs for personal and professional development

Cons

Opportunities for advancement in position and salary are extremely limited Since Roche took over, all non-Research jobs have been devalued Former company culture, which made it exciting for everyone who worked there, is now gone.

3.0
May 14, 2012

Good company, but bad management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It was a nice place to work with many perks.

Cons

Management played favorites and messed with your bonus and stock shares if you weren't one of the chosen ones.

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