This company is in turmoil! Good people around me are job seeking. - Anonymous employee Genentech Employee Review

2.0
9 Dec 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of free food

Cons

- Not just that several rounds of down-sizing across the organization have created chaos and unsafety and the moral is low, but also people feel like going to the office feels like attending funeral everyday! - Loss in trust of the leadershop. I don't want to get to the details of this, but the way leadership made decisions on layoff people has been disapointing! - Putting company ahead of employees. I see a lot of people around me were treated unfairly. So many examples!

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Cons

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