Personalis reviews

3.6

50% would recommend to a friend

(90 total reviews)

Christopher Hall

43% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Personalis has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 90 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Personalis 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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90 reviews
5.0
Apr 24, 2017

Current employee

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic team of people. Great prospects. CEO and management team are a group of real professionals with great experience and knowledge.

Cons

Company need to hire more people to help lower level employees maintain work-life balance.

5.0
May 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Personalis innovates with game-changing technologies that will have a huge impact on medicine. I want to work with a company that is doing something more - For me, Personalis is it. There are a lot of super smart people working there in many categories. I see none of the micro-management noted in another post here. It's been quite the opposite for me. I've got full latitude and support to create and innovate. My manager is fantastic. I've never had better. And because of it, we're making rapid progress on great new products. The people are welcoming and friendly. I started working with them as a contractor, and was invited to and welcomed at company parties. I took a pay cut to work here, and I don't regret it. I am excited to be working with such a great company. The CEO is smart, visionary, and inspiring. The products are excellent, and they're doing things that their competitors can't pull off.

Cons

Pay is pretty good, but so far I don't see the high bonuses that I could get at some other companies. There's more and more traffic on 101 near the company. Yeah, I recently ate lunch at Uber - I'd like a lunch setup like that.

5.0
Apr 16, 2016

A great startup experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of the people in the company are reasonable, many of them are talented and hardworking. The CEO himself is an expert in NGS, and he use to be the CEO of Solexa. The company is cautious on spending money, which is very reasonable and promising as a startup. Warm atmosphere among colleagues. The company holds many activities, such as walking clubs, pingpong tournaments, birthday parties, bowling games, and special parties on Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am lucky to work with a manager who is very knowledgeable and never micro-manages. Our team get things done. Since I saw negative comments in another review, I would say I am not familiar with the management style in other teams.

Cons

If only we have enough bananas that can last till Friday.

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