Genentech reviews

Repetitive work that is highly important in delivering the pipeline does not get recognized by management. Promotion criteria is unclear. Department engagement is below 50%. Employees are afraid to speak their mind and hope someone brave enough to step up and voice for everyone. Benefits of employees are slowly diminishing, such as no more breakfast at morning meetings, lunch meetings are limited to in house sandwiches only, and increasing demands for higher work efficiency given that the amount of work each employee is handling already doubled. Research associate (RA) positions does not get replaced when someone leaves the company. The salary compensation for RA are unfair compared to compensations received from other functions of the company of equal employee status ranking level. Double standards across the company for conserving and leaning processes where later stage functions of the company has luxurious annual conferences at Las Vegas (including lodging accommodations and team building activities) where as R&D technical functions of the company get budgeted for expense to reduce what already was relatively minimal to become even less. First friday Hoho event had slowly become mostly a way for employees to hoard food to bring back home. Most employees who attend rarely networks but only stay within own comfortable group. Complimentary food and drinks are being limited where shortly after an hour of event start time, it will run out. Given the multiple available career development opportunities but with the expectation of more work efficiency due to 10x higher volume of projects funneling in, employee does not have the time to take advantage of most of these benefits of the company.

As with many large companies, decision making can feel stifled by processes. Resistance to doing things differently can be demotivating. Whereas the company was innovative and agile in the past, it often feels in denial stuck in a time warp struggling to do things differently when the world outside has changed.