Good Company to Work For - Quality Control Associate Genentech Employee Review

4.0
Apr 28, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits, Good Sense of accomplishment. Six Week Sabbatical every six years, 18 days vacation per year, non limited sick time (up to 6 occurrences per year).

Cons

Very political. Owned by Roche and budgeting is tight for non-research non-manufacturing departments. Performance is only a small part of advancement, you also have to please people (i.e. management) in order to advance.

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Genentech Response
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We appreciate your thoughtful comments. We’re happy to be able to offer competitive benefits & programs to our employees. Thank you as well for your thoughts on performance reviews. While annual reviews are used as a means to measure milestones and goal accomplishments, they are also intended to provide rich feedback and to engage in valuable discussion. If you feel your reviews are meaningless, you might want to speak with your manager about getting real time feedback and coaching, which may be more beneficial for your development.

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