Genentech reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,711 total reviews)
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Ashley Magargee

83% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Genentech has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,711 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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3.0
Dec 11, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The company has competitive pay, great benefits, management say the right things, and I believe they want to do the right things.

Cons

Management plays favorites with preferred employees in pay and promotion that goes beyond difference is demonstrated skills and tangible contributions. In Finance organization, excessive importance placed on commodity skills of "business partnering." Result is that core technical Finance and Accounting skills are not cultivated, support groups with these skills are small, and all technical work is channeled to these small groups as few people can or want to do it. Sr. management is more focused on their own self promotion than on developing their organizations.

2.0
Dec 9, 2010

Depends who your manager is

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- working for a company that saves lives, especially cancer victims - rebate for taking their shuttles to work - technology is up-to-date - t-shirts and random free gifts throughout the year

Cons

- managers who favor some and treat others like crap (based on personal bias not work product) - managers who give Genenchecks (~$250) to their pets for made up reasons - managers who tell you every week that your work product doesn't matter but your popularity does - managers who have no qualifications to manage your work being assigned to you

4.0
Dec 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They truly focus on patient.

Cons

Recent cutbacks and "transparency" by management was very poor. Newly appointed upper management appears clueless on running the sales/business side.

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