Roche reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,447 total reviews)
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Thomas Schinecker

86% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Roche has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,447 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Roche 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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6K reviews
2.0
Jan 19, 2014

My worst job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is well funded/resourced and very stable (unlikely to get layed-off or fired), and the benefits were pretty good.

Cons

The job responsibilities were boring and not challenging, the employee education assistance programs were limited, and much of management was incompetent at managing people, projects.

4.0
Dec 2, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work environment. Good product ideas. Staff work together to meet goals. Has large parent company, Roche, for support. Good benefits. Intelligent staff.

Cons

Competitive market means rapid, 4 year development cycles. QC, QA and Manufacturing are on the East coast and Research, Development, Marketing, Business Development, Regulatory and the Administrative center are in Pleasanton which makes maintaining good communication important.

2.0
May 15, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large company with a diversity of opportunities. International exposure. Nice coworkers who are, on the whole, capable and dedicated.

Cons

Hierarchial, autocratic management in some cases. Old style command and control behavior which uses power to try to intimidate by keeping people in the dark and off base. Bureaucratic and slow to move. It can be very tedious and require a lot of patience to get anything accomplished. Culturally the company can be very rigid.

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