Guardant Health reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(315 total reviews)
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Helmy Eltoukhy and AmirAli Talasaz

58% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Guardant Health has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 315 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guardant Health 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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315 reviews
1.0
Oct 22, 2022

toxic management

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Pros

Above average pay for industry (minimally)

Cons

Core leaders aren't held accountable for mistakes and consistently fail up Blame game is a constant issue; and the voices of true source of missed launches/product failures are hidden from/ignored by top management There are plenty of pages of retrospectives but none of them have materialized into fixing the problems Managers use HR as a crux to gaslight and micromanage employees Burnout is treated as a lack of potential It is impossible to use PTO as there are always ongoing fires; leadership expects folks to always be available Company is too large to run as a startup/small company Company is incapable of properly calculating the cost of business ventures and teams get stuck with impossible deadlines that neither did they plan for nor did they get budget to solve Everything is of highest priority which means nothing is Company has incurred too much technical debt Advice from senior management and executive leaders to address these problems is to "write them down and discard the paper it was written on" Last minute "effective immediately" policy decisions No work life balance Last minute decisions that cause rework are constant Miscommunication exists in all facets of the company; and this makes no sense as most leaders spend ~6-8+ hours per day in meetings Leaders give puerile responses when pressed on important issues

3.0
Oct 26, 2021

Fascinating technology run by a good old boys club

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Pros

Extremely interesting technology in the Oncology space, pretty good benefits, founders seem to care, very good marketing support, for the most part patient first mentality. Lots of diversity but it’s a CA company so expected.

Cons

Senior leadership outside of founders are transparently terrible communicators and I’ve never worked somewhere where I felt like they didn’t have my back as much as I feel that here, except for direct management. Very fast paced working environment, if you’re bored and feel like you need to work the hardest in your life this is your company, but make sure you are in the inner circle otherwise you miss all the jokes and you’re an outsider. Sales and Ops lack synergy. Preferential Treatment to “friends”.

2.0
Jan 20, 2020

Good perks/ Cutthroat environment

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Pros

Free lunch was a great perk

Cons

Poor training and onboarding processes. Unreasonable timeline for project results. Since their IPO, they focused less on their employees and more on profits. Management will find any excuse to fire people. There is a constant fear that anyone will be the next to get fired.

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