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      Genentech

      Part of Roche

      Engaged Employer

      Genentech reviews

      3.9

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (3,717 total reviews)
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      Ashley Magargee

      83% approve of CEO

      55% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Genentech has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,717 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Genentech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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      4K reviews
      3.0
      Sep 13, 2010

      Not "In Business for Life Anymore"

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits Fair base pay Some really smart people Sabbaticals Free coffee

      Cons

      There's no such things as work/life balance This is not a company for a working mom Post-merger, Roche is looking for "efficiencies." Enough said.

      5.0
      Sep 13, 2010

      Genentech is a great place to work

      Group manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Genentech is focused on improving the lives of patients with serious and incurable diseases. Every employee can clearly see how they are contributing to this goal. It is a very fulfilling job with very competitive salaries and benefits packages.

      Cons

      Genentech was recently purchased by Roche pharmaceuticals. With this merger they grew overnight from an 11,000 person company to an 80,000 person company. The culture is quickly changing, work-life balance is becoming a thing of the past, and the focus of everyone's work is becoming unclear.

      3.0
      Sep 10, 2010

      Very political, very hierarchical.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Many smart, motivated employees - Interesting work - Desire to provide a work-life balance - The espresso machines

      Cons

      - Hierarchical - you simply had to understand that it was a caste system. When I joined the company this dynamic was becoming status quo, part and parcel of the company's absorption of "big pharma" culture. - Tendency to hire very overqualified people for roles, and keep them there for long periods of time - Limited array of roles - Bureaucratic - Highly decentralized HR with absolutely no power - The reality of work-life balance wasn't there for a lot of people. The travel demands for some roles were really gruelling. - Roche's entry has put a different type of pressure on the company, and is generating a lot of fearful and duplicitous behavior - including at senior management levels.

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