Genentech reviews

Too much distinction between "green badges" (contingent workers) and "blue badges" (full time employees). Everyone does the same quality of work if you hire professionals. The distinction was too distracting, isolating and alienating many people.

Genentech is terrible at execution, at least in Production Operations. We are great at developing amazing drugs but processes are nearly non-existent. The processes that do exist are not used or not communicated. No one knows who has the rights to make a decision so they ask every single person involved in the issue to help make one, making things horribly inefficient and creating chaos. If anyone is half capable of documenting a process, not even optimizing it, just documenting it, they think you are a genius. Communication at this company is great from the Executives but middle management and cross-functional communication is poor at best. Capable people mangers are also severely lacking.