Toxic Work Environment/Bad Management - Manager Genentech Employee Review

1.0
May 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Excellent on-site mental health and wellness counselling service that provides tremendous assistance for dealing with toxic management. - Great Career Lab counsellors that understand employee skills and provide outside of the box thinking.

Cons

- Ubiquitos pattern of favoritism that results in and trumps discrimination and harrassment must be addressed. - This company has a fear-based management mentality that excludes qualified workers, ambitious individuals and honest employees. - Questioning, creativity and accountability are frowned upon, discouraged and punished rather than rewarded. - Sycophants manage up and do not develop teams. Real work is never rewarded. - Absolutely no translatable skills developed here. People just brown-nose and receive a new job title. Real work goes to consultants.

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Genentech Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We want our managers to be committed and passionate leaders and we support them on this journey to be effective in their roles. We recognize that our managers influence our employees’ experiences and we’re striving to address the issues you’ve mentioned. We are also deeply committed to creating and maintaining a safe, healthy and positive work environment and take seriously any concerns about unfairness or mistreatment. We strongly encourage you to contact your Human Resources Business Partner or our gCOM (Genentech's Compliance & Ethics) phone line at 866-411-4266 if you experienced or witnessed anything that you considered to be unfair. Thanks again for your review!

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