Invitae Bioinformatics Engineer reviews

2.8

15% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)
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Ken Knight

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15% positive business outlook

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8 reviews
2.0
May 27, 2022
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Pros

Benefits at Invitae are great. They do care about the mental and physical well being of their employees.

Cons

Wasted my time. Since the time that I joined the company went through a few "re-orgs" (fancy term for layoffs). The original position that I was hired for no longer exists at the company and I kept being moved to a new team every two months. I was unable to find stability working for Invitae and when it came down to it, they relieved me of my duties as they could not find an opportunity for me within the company. I spent the last month learning and proving my worth just to realize that my lead had already made the decision for me to longer be a part of the company and that the tickets that I closed were just overhead and by having me do it, they didn't have to worry about wasting another's time, since I was already fated to leave the company.

1.0
Mar 11, 2022
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Pros

Awesome people who are inspirational but downright overworked. Love unlimited PTO, office drinks & food

Cons

Awful management. The company has grown without planning/establishing a structure, so the resource /project/career management is just chaotic. The company culture is shifting from a tech/startup/friendly/good faith -> corporate america/red tape/bureaucracy. Also, the tech is rolling in a mountain of tech debts. Because bio takes priority over "tech", the company encourages bad tech practice. Could be great for bioinformatics engineers, but a straight-up nightmare for software engineers. Don't expect growth as a software engineer.

2.0
Jan 27, 2022
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Pros

Company has excellent software and biotechnology products that span the genetics testing space, and group of highly competent ICs who work very hard.

Cons

Leadership is a disaster. The cultural tenants are just posters on the wall. Company has grown very fast with no solid integration planning, and instead of coming up with plans to fix duplicated projects and initiatives between branches, they allowed them to all run for almost a year, then fired ICs when they had to cancel the projects. Most, if not all, the managers who failed to do any preventative kept their jobs.

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