Widespread victimization to downsize and cut costs - Anonymous employee 10x Genomics Employee Review

1.0
18 May 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pros is your salary gets paid on time so the company is not on the verge of collapse.

Cons

10X has been frontrunning since covid to meet the ridiculous growth expectations and now faces downsizing aspects to cut costs and probably sell off the company. Unlike other startups who seek the understanding of employees to rein in pay cuts or even pay freeze for management, 10X does not even bother to shape up. There is no proper performance appraisal process. Instead, employees who have been promoted recently would be advised of performance issues and get sacked shortly after. This feels like widespread victimisation by a team of people living in the colonisation era. One would think the current proxy war at Illumina would serve as good learning materials to buck up management prowess. If the same happened at 10X, it would be amoral for any sensible shareholder to assign their proxy to the CEO or CFO.

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5.0
20 Mar 2026
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Pros

Fast-paced environment with regular product updates to keep things fresh and interesting. 10x does a great job hiring high-quality candidates, so we have very strong teams, including managers. It makes it relatively easy to support products when customers are excited to bring them into their labs.

Cons

No standout complaints, though there are relatively slow promotion rates.

3.0
7 June 2026
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Pros

Many talented and hardworking colleagues Great technology in single cell and spatial omics

Cons

Some key decisions are made based on politics instead of science or technology. Some project leads don’t have the basic knowledge of the techniques and don’t know how to organize a project properly , but are still allowed to lead the projects due to their personal relationship with the senior leaders. People who are closer to the senior leaders are promoted faster or hired with a higher title (sometimes don’t even follow the normal procedures of hiring or promotion), regardless of their contributions or technical skills. At the same time, many folks who do the heavy lifting work are ignored. Some people tend to over-advertise or even manipulate their results, which lead to a huge waste of time and money for others in R&D since the results are not reliable and repeatable. There are feedback surveys each year, but the concerns are rarely discussed seriously.

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