Guardant Health reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(315 total reviews)
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Helmy Eltoukhy and AmirAli Talasaz

58% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Guardant Health has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 315 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guardant Health 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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315 reviews
2.0
Jul 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent benefits, pre-covid lunches were nice. Not much else. Your experience will depend vastly on which team you are on.

Cons

Little to no respect for employee's work-life balance. Bare minimum acknowledgment from upper management of major milestones. (Fist bump mentions are superficial). Folks barely use PTO and end up cashing out. COVID19 response: There was a divide regarding accommodations for folks with families versus those who don't. Essentially no support for single employees. Expect contact 24/7, your job description can and will change without notice, and the scope of demands will increase without review. Middle management are "yes men" (and most are married white men) that do not push back and provide bad news to upper management leading to needlessly aggressive deadlines. Micromanaging is common which is basically a symptom of bad management. There is a stark contrast in diversity from lower-level employees and upper management.

2.0
Jun 15, 2021

Going through growing pains

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-You'll meet and learn from a lot of hardworking individual contributors that go above and beyond their roles -High impact competitive space to be in

Cons

-Frequent reorg events across multiple departments -In the last 1-2 years, influx of new junior-level managers from big companies like Thermo Fisher, Illumina, Roche, has led to weak middle management that isn't used to the pace and level of caliber needed for Guardant -Middle management's lack of alignment with upper management has led to poor communication, poor execution, and as a result, burnt out and frustrated ICs -Consistently feeling like timelines are always missed and never on track

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