Natera reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,120 total reviews)
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Steve Chapman

80% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Natera has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,120 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Natera 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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2.0
Feb 13, 2018

Not worth it

Recommend
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Pros

Lunch catering 3 times a week, some snacks, and good healthcare benefit.

Cons

After spending some years in this company, this company image just dropped from awesome, to there is still some good, to time to leave. The bosses are micro-management style. Conflict occurs all the time among teams. Decision of starting and ending a project just happens any time. There is no mentorship or career opportunities, and people just care about themselves how to survive and climb up. Lots of unprofessional behavior. Saying we have a start-up mentality is just an excuse of chaos.

2.0
Dec 9, 2017

Distrustful and racist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free snacks and lunches.. dress code...benefits are decent and lower management is decent with some good co workers in Austin,TX.

Cons

The department leadership is very dishonest, don’t communicate with their employees unless you are part of their inner circle. The department leader of the billing, appeals, and posting is racist and treats other races different. I have seen other employees have to transfer or get let go because of things the department head has heard and not seen because if you’re not in the inner circle you don’t get any warnings. But the inner circle which is no one of other races gets multiple chances. The managers of the team are good but the head department lead has no understanding of people or how to speak to people. The advancement is none for the multiple races there. There needs to be revamping of this level of management and evaluation done on how the races are treated before a EEOC lawsuit occurs. Avoid working here especially if you are of a different race than those who runs the world(no need to say the race).

1.0
Oct 14, 2016

Do your research before accepting an offer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food/snacks Decent health benefits Good starter job for new college graduates with no prior industry experience

Cons

Management is easily the biggest problem at this company. Managers are very good at completing projects, but terribly awful at actually managing the people. Most of the managers here would never be a manager at any other company. Most managers are in their positions because they have been with the company so long. I can go on and on about how bad the management is here, but you can just read through all the other reviews. They are all pretty much spot on. Pay is not competitive at all and most offers are below industry standard. It feels like this company prides themselves on offering the "bare minimum" pay. Do your research on what the industry standard is because your offer will definitely be under that. Job titles are completely misconstrued as well. No one really knows what is required to move on to the next job tier (Level I vs Level II). Apparently, this is the job of HR to standardize. I would not trust the HR here because at one point from 2015-2016, both HR and Recruiting underwent extreme turnover. HR even asked employees to leave positive glassdoor reviews to assist the recruiting team recruit. The company wide turnover rate is also very scary, but is treated as a normal occurrence. This is definitely a place where it is quantity is preferred over quality. Why hire one superstar employee when you can get two mediocre ones for the same salary? Employee retention is the biggest challenge because competing companies will pay for quality employees, but Natera won't. So all the best employees leave and never look back. With all the turnover, the only constant is that the management team is the same team since the start. Pretty obvious sign where the problems lie. There needs to be a company wide shake up starting at the very top with a big culture change. Unhappy employees will create a negative atmosphere.

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