Genentech reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,710 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 3,710 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
5.0
Mar 30, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great culture, focus on innovation, lots of resources for employees, good focus on employee development, very good benefits package.

Cons

Difficult to advance unless skilled at politics. Can be large and bureaucratic at times. Stock flat or falling in recent years makes stock options not valuable.

1.0
Mar 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great medical benefits, good other benefits in theory...

Cons

(1) ...if those benefits weren't behind a byzantine wall of contradictory policies, causing most exercises of those benefits to fail. (2) self-gutting major reorganizations (a few per year) at the whims of high-rank managers; the results being your dept's continued existence has nothing to do with success or efficiency, only the fallout of boardroom politics way above your paygrade.

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