Verily reviews

2.8

32% would recommend to a friend

(402 total reviews)
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Stephen Gillett

25% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

Verily has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 402 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Verily employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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402 reviews
2.0
Jul 21, 2020

Great mission, poorly managed company.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Smart, driven people. With best work ethic you can see in the industry (across tech/bio/pharma). - Good mission. People truly believe in the mission - Google benefits/perks. Good compensation.

Cons

- Bad work life balance. This is understandable given the stage company is in, pre-IPO, and nature of work in biotech industry. - CEO + senior management don't know what it takes to build a valuable product. This is the biggest gap. Verily needs a sustainable business model that's not partnership driven in order to be self-sufficient, and grow outside of Alphabet. Senior leadership lacks experience here. True innovation doesn't only come from clinical innovations. Verily is a technology company. - Senior management over promises to partners, and company then under delivers (due to reasons above). - Terrible leadership. Q&As, All Hands, Surveys are just placeholders. Leadership doesn't "actually" take employee feedback seriously. - CEO lacks empathy. That's not necessarily a requirement for a CEO, but I would expect a CEO to be at least business-savvy if lacking empathy.

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Verily Response
4y
We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review. Our goal is to create an environment where people collaborate, support each other, and enjoy meaningful work. It sounds like this wasn’t your experience. Even though you are no longer a Verily employee we’d love to connect your feedback to the Verily People and Culture Team, and hope you'll email us at “verily-PACT@google.com”. Your feedback can then connect to others' feedback as we continue to build and improve Verily as one of the great places to build your career. Best of luck in your career!
1.0
May 26, 2020

Toxic culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The mid-level people are super smart and driven. They believe in the work.

Cons

Leadership doesn't care at all about the workforce. Heard this directly from the head of HR: "Verily isn't a great place to work, so we shouldn't communicate too overtly that in our recruiting efforts." When the head of people says its not a great place to work, you can be sure it's not a great place to work.

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Verily Response
4y
We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review. Our goal is to create an environment where people collaborate, support each other, and enjoy meaningful work. It sounds like this wasn’t your experience. Even though you are no longer a Verily employee we’d love to connect your feedback to the Verily People and Culture Team, and hope you'll email us at “verily-PACT@google.com”. Your feedback can then connect to others' feedback as we continue to build and improve Verily as one of the great places to build your career. Best of luck in your career!
2.0
Jul 2, 2024

Dumpster Fire

Anonymous employee
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Pros

AVOID. Legit name, smart people, good comp (soon to be lowered), but please read cons. If you're smart enough to land a job here, I'd look elsewhere.

Cons

#1: Verily is being separated from Google/Alphabet as Google's under a lot of financial strain. No more "google" benefits (shuttle, building access, etc.). **Comp is expected to decrease.** This is NOT Google. To quote someone else's review that really hits home for me: "This isn’t “google x” or “google life sciences ” anymore despite people putting that 8 year old statement on their LinkedIns. It’s a failing startup with inexperienced and incompetent leadership. If you want to work at Google, apply to Google." #2: Politics. Man... there's so much to do here (because we lack PMF) and because we're a startup, but it's like we've inherited the bureaucracy of a F500 so it's tough to get things done. Sure, this happens at other companies, but the hypocrisy is wild. I was sold an idea that this was a quick and nimble startup within Alphabet. Nope. #3: Quiet layoffs. This company barely has product-market and is suffering for it. Layoffs occurred with minimal comms from management, put a bad taste in my/many of my colleagues' mouths. To anyone considering a job here: look, if you're in a bad place, fine, a job is a job. But if you're smart enough to get this job, look elsewhere.

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Verily Response
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Thank you for leaving your review and we’re sorry to hear you’re having this experience. We would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you directly to hear more of your feedback. As it relates to changes related to Project Flywheel (our separation from Google platforms and systems), Verily is on track for this systems separation and we have shared routine and transparent communications about the details and the process - including multiple "deep dive" employee sessions walking through details of what's to come. We made a commitment to share information with employees as soon as decisions are made, which we’ve done across multiple channels over the past two+ years so there should be no surprises to employees about why we are separating (to benefit Verily and our business), what’s happening or what’s to come. We are also working closely with our recruiters to ensure their conversations with candidates reflect all of the information and decisions, as well as to outline what additional changes are planned. With respect to organizational changes, including hires or restructures, we prepare full and transparent communications plans to ensure teams are aware. For example, in the product organization’s most recent changes, we communicated within the product organization, across teams to functional partners, and then broadly to the entire company on Slack and in the recent town hall. And we will continue to operate in this way with transparency for any future changes. We appreciate your perspective and your feedback here, and in our routine employee surveys is very valued. We hope you'll reach out to PACT directly at Verily-PACT@google.com so we can help to improve your experience at Verily.
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