Pros
The only pro is the food and snacks provided by verily.
Cons
1. Rushed timelines. Upper management is always pushing unattainable timelines which stresses teams out. Projects often need to be re-performed due to rushed planning. 2. Fake people. People will talk about you behind your back, including managers and directors. They will act fake nice to you in person. The main selling point when going through the interview process is the culture, however, it is all a façade. The culture at freenome is very toxic. Nobody wants to work together. People will forget that we are more than just our department, we are 1 company. 3. Poor management. Managers are constantly fighting each other about making decisions. Even during meetings. This leads to poor decision making which in turn affects the quality of the test. 4. Lack of trust. Nobody trusts you to do your job. But you cannot trust other people either. 1:1s are not confidential. Management has terrible conflict resolution and will only make any issues that were brought up worse. 5. Severely disorganized/lack of transparency. Decisions are always made without communicating to others. This causes a lot of confusion. 6. Review cycles are meaningless. There are no merit based promotions. Mid year review cycles do not mean anything because of this. It makes it feel like there is no room for career development.