Ok place to work.....getting worse - Senior Statistical Programmer Genentech Employee Review

4.0
29 Apr 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are ok but don't improve much.

Cons

Managers and bureaucracy can get on your nerves.

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