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      Disconnected Leadership and Slow Innovation - Senior Software Engineering Manager Roche Employee Review

      3.0
      May 22, 2025
      Senior software engineering manager
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      Pros

      Great mission and impact in the healthcare space. Intelligent and mission-driven peers in technical and scientific roles. Good benefits and work-life balance in most departments.

      Cons

      Leadership often feels disconnected from the realities on the ground, especially in software and digital health teams. Decision-making is bureaucratic and risk-averse, which slows down innovation. Engineering culture lacks the agility and modern practices found in comparable companies. Promotions and recognition heavily favor tenure and politics over impact and initiative. Cross-functional alignment is poor — silos between business, product, and engineering make collaboration frustrating.

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      Thank you for your feedback. We firmly believe that every employee deserves great leaders – someone who inspires and motivates. We expect this from all Roche leaders so that employees are supported with opportunities to continually discover, learn, develop and excel. We strive to hire and engage awesome and talented people throughout our company. We want our employees to be heard, challenged, and inspired every day.

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      5.0
      Jul 7, 2026
      Senior systems integration engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great company with great benefits and opportunities

      Cons

      There are no cons worth mentioning.

      3.0
      Jul 7, 2026
      Material handler
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits are great and the pay is better than most.

      Cons

      They care more about forcing efficiency measures than solving root problems. They want to enact "morale boost" events but refuse to ask why we were unhappy. This year they decided to devalue our pay and our efforts by giving everyone a static 2% raise

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