Genentech reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,713 total reviews)
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83% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Genentech has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,713 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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5.0
Sep 23, 2024

Nice Benifits

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are nice there

Cons

I cannot think of any

5.0
Sep 23, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work if you genuinely love science and don't mind a more academic environment to drug development. Genuinely some of the best people i've ever worked with.

Cons

Layoffs are coming more and more by the day, with vague mentions of reorganization that is "best" for the company. Meanwhile, all the things (and people...) that made this place great are being chased away.

3.0
Sep 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great work-life balance. Very competitive pay and industry-leading employee benefits, an amazing campus with shuttle buses, an onsite gym, dozens of delicious cafeterias, Ho Ho parties, onsite dental daycare nail and spa salon golf truck. Sabbaticals every 6 years.

Cons

Many great scientists left over the years the ones who stayed often tended to be arrogant, incompetent, and still live in their bubble, which resulted in below-than-industry-average R&D productivity. There have been so many failures with limited success in recent years, Lampa, lebri, Etro, PTX-2, Ipat, pralsetinib, cancer vaccine, and sky06. You can't always blame Roche for failures. Rarely was management held accountable for the horrible decision-making and the dysfunctional reward system

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