Best genomics option in the bay area by a margin - Anonymous employee Color Employee Review

5.0
Jan 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Experienced and diverse team. Top-notch performers in the lab, design, engineering, business, and operations teams. - The mission of making genetics accessible to everyone, for example to reduce the impact of cancer, is incredible. - Founders combine software, biology, and operational excellence. Between them there's experience in medical pathology, bioinformatics engineering, cancer biology, running large-scale products at Google and Twitter, starting successful companies in the past, investing in and advising to top silicon valley companies (Stipe, Airbnb, Pinterest), and so on. - Everyone is humble. No power plays, no politics, no hidden information. Great culture of openness. - Good work-life balance (part of having an experienced team). Long hours are very uncommon. Effective hours are very common. - State of art technology in the genomics space. - Financial prospects look great.

Cons

- Location is not great, kind of stuck in a place that's not quite SF but not quite south bay, so everyone has a commute. Somewhat inflexible on remote work opportunities.

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5.0
Jul 18, 2025
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Pros

I really enjoyed my time overall. staff was awesome, mission was exciting, and personal/professional growth was encouraged and fostered.

Cons

I was very sadly laid off with many others.

1.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

The people you work with are the greatest people. They are so kind and will help you out.

Cons

This has been the worst company I ever worked for. Management will tell you "You are doing great!" but then turn around and say you are not meeting expectations. Leadership has no clue what they are doing and continues to blame the little people at the bottom. Its sad that the only conversation the people who are working there is talking about all the layoffs that has happened in the last five years. You do the work of five people and compensated like you work retail at 17 dollars an hour. The CEO is clueless. If I could rate this company a 0 I would. Please stay away from this company.

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