Decent company with growing pains - Senior Research Associate Invitae Employee Review

4.0
Feb 11, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The perks of working here (Boulder office) are great, from good benefits to good salary equality based on experience to free lunches 2x a week and a WELL stocked breakroom. The mission is great to bring genetic testing into more fields and to more clients. The people are mostly very nice, hardworking, very smart individuals.

Cons

Recent layoffs happened since the company was spending too much money on projects it acquired. Makes sense, but the layoffs left some disorganization and confusion and less confidence in jobs. Also, the review system is really stupid in that they ask you to quarterly review all your teammates and direct reports and bosses... Both positive and negative feedback. Giving this level of feedback to peers and bosses is super awkward and not helpful.

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5.0
Feb 12, 2026
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Pros

Collaborative culture Transparent, radically honest communication Innovative ethos Brilliant team members Flat org structure Distributed workforce

Cons

Flat org structure Distributed workforce

3.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Encourages ownership and collaboration across teams / jurisdictions.

Cons

Growth at any cost without the infrastructure to support it led to burnout in a lot of places.

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