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      Cepheid

      Part of Danaher

      Engaged Employer

      Cepheid reviews

      2.9

      39% would recommend to a friend

      (959 total reviews)
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      Vitor Rocha

      32% approve of CEO

      28% positive business outlook

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      Cepheid has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 959 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cepheid 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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      959 reviews
      2.0
      Dec 10, 2018

      Harsh Company Culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The product manufactured at this company makes a difference in the lives of patients.

      Cons

      Harsh company culture. After Danaher acquired Cepheid, they had a couple of rounds of layoffs and they had outside security officers posted in all the buildings and some people were walked out. A few people had their cubicle items shipped to them because they were not even allowed to pack their own stuff. Danaher is a metrics based company and every single aspect of their business is based on metrics (sounds good, doesn't work). They laid off managers and distributed their jobs to supervisors as a cost cutting measures. The benefits packages for regular contributors as well as salaries are not competitive compared to other companies in the Bay Area.

      2.0
      Jun 18, 2015

      Elegant product, terrible execution

      Engineer in tech ops
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      All the mundane things the sheeple go to work for are taken care of. Pay and benefits are just fine, 401(k) contributions are matched, ESPP available if you've got a few thousand bucks in the mattress (I don't). Cohort is generally nice, if in a very middle-American-office vein.

      Cons

      Consumable operations - the folks producing the GeneXpert cartridge, the company's high-volume product - is a rudderless ship. No MES or other functioning data system exists to comprehensively track failures, which doesn't lend itself to troubleshooting the myriad serious problems plaguing the operation. The whole manufacturing workflow is a held-over afterthought from the early days (10-15 years ago) and has not, to date, been revisited. The raw materials and finished product are rolled around the building in plastic trays, Ziploc bags, Tupperware tubs and the like, fine for expensive parts but utterly inappropriate for a factory attempting to produce units in the hundreds of millions per quarter. Recurring equipment failures and poorly-conceived mechanisms are common and no program (CIP?) is in place to improve or eliminate them. The overall impression is that management is so enamored of their game-changing "help the world" nature of the product - which it doubtless is - that the niceties of a controlled production process are lost on them.

      2.0
      Mar 2, 2015

      my 2 cents

      Research associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      can learn a lot, amazing technology for the IVD market, most co-workers are friendly, flexible work hours

      Cons

      low pay raises, company is stingy with its money, difficult to get promoted unless if you are a yes-man and have a popular manager...

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