Guardant Health reviews

1) No work-life balance. Up to 7-8 hours of meetings in a day and they expect us to work on top of that. Constant burnout due to working long hours. I am a hardworking individual but I couldn't keep up with this lifestyle as it took a toll on my health and personal life. 2) Toxic Management. Managers will start complaining about you behind your back if you give more priority to your personal life. Even taking sick leave feels like a crime. 3) Frequent lay-offs. 4) Management expects us to work at the same pace even after firing 50% of the team. For them, you are just another person who can be easily replaced no matter how many years of your life you give to the company. 5) The management team only cares about climbing up the position ladder so they will burn out the employees just to showcase how much they have achieved every quarter, but when it comes to promoting the employees, they will start complaining about the budget constraints. 6) A lot of favoritism. You will only get promoted if you keep praising your boss and not for your hard work.

IT is basically useless. Their ticketing system is broken. Tickets have to be manually escalated or they are ignored. The company LIMS is a joke. It goes down every week and people are locked out for hours. Preplanned updates wind up changing way more than they are supposed to. The software support team is completely siloed from the rest of the company, and makes huge changes all the time without asking any of the lab teams if they'll be affected by systems downtime. Senior and executive management do the best they can, but stuff changes all the time for no good reason. They function like a startup, but they've been around for a decade and are subject to many regulations. Not a good mix, definitely the worst of both worlds. Burnout is rampant throughout the company. Everyone from entry-level employees to directors have complained about it. Turnover is high. HR finds reasons not to make changes or take action.