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74% would recommend to a friend

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4.0
Jun 2, 2015

Software Developer

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Pros

The People, the old culture. The mission statement to save lives overall.

Cons

Now that it is Roche owned, culture slowly changing. Not enough job movement/promotions. Market compensation

4.0
May 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation, 401K matching, free dress, insurance (medical, dental, vision) are excellent and cannot be compared to any other company. LOTS of free food floating around. Many opportunities to movement around the company (but lots of competition). Concerts, free stuff and giveaways. Promotes healthy living. Free shuttles/buses around different cities. Discounted: pet care, pet insurance, child care onsite, food to close by restaurants. There are many different perks-beds in some offices, pods, sit to stand desks, ergonomic everything, free gym onsite (pay for trainers), free gym classes, lots of different volunteer opportunities. Company donates TONS of money to research and financial institutions to help pay for some of the drugs the company makes. There are just so many pros to this company, it's hard to list. The biggest thing is not to stay in one place in this company, otherwise, you feel stuck and will want to leave. It's fairly difficult coming in as a full time employee.

Cons

Access Solutions: overworked, repetitive day to day work, favoritism, politics, no chance in getting hired if you came on as a contractor, false hope from the supervisors and above. Told to speak freely, but get reprimanded when you do.

5.0
May 11, 2015

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

work life balance (depending on dept/mgr) excellent pay and benefits committed to employee development

Cons

highly bureaucratic in some parts of the organization difficult to gain traction on certain projects very intense work environment

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