Genentech reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,710 total reviews)
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83% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Genentech has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,710 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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4K reviews
4.0
Jul 20, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. excellent support from various facilities. 2. Almost unlimited resource and money to spend on reagents, cell lines. 3. No need to write grants.

Cons

1. Postdocs get a slim chance to stay. 2. No trust or respect from some colleagues if you are not considerred as a "non permenant" employee. 3. NOT fair when it comes to publication, taking credit.

3.0
Jul 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great pay 2. Great benefits 3. Recognize years worked

Cons

1. Horrible HR system (VERY disorganized and UNinformed) 2. If you have a 'challenging' boss, employee can easily be 'forced out' due to unfair representation. 3. Work and life balance NOT present as company claims it to be. 4. Follow-up to #3 - continuously pushed with increasing workloads to accomplish more and more. 5. Flexible / reasonable hours do NOT exist. 6. South San Francisco (SSF) isn't the greatest place ('shady') to headquarter a premier company. 7. Follow-up to #6 - company location makes for a LONG, jammed commute from ANY direction. 8. SSF headquarters is expanding too much and too quickly for its own good. Takes time to get from point A to point B.

4.0
Jul 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work hours very flexible. You can do as much or as little as you wish. Co-workers are friendly and the company does do a pretty good job at keeping the old Genentech tradations alive, like Ho-Ho's

Cons

Roche merger making Genentech different - no visioin for promotion opportunities, this can be tough. Work is easy - not very technically challenging. Often times, management is not engaged in what you are doing

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