Genentech reviews

Promotions are very political. The result is poor management, often making decisions individually rather than taking their direct reports' opinions into account. There are middle managers management who are malicious, assigning blame on direct reports rather than taking accountability.

In IT, there was often the case of the "blind leading the blind" going all the way to the VP level. More time was spent thinking about which "motivational speaker" (interpret this as you will) to bring in next and re-classify/re-orient the staff instead of improving the accountability (which is SORELY lacking despite what some might have you think), and rewarding the top achievers. Generally, the support departments appeared to suffer from: - Unfair playing fields - Hypocritical management policies - Inflated sense of entitlement by middle and upper management - Lack of respect for people who actually get the work done