Xenotech Reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(42 total reviews)

Yasuhisa Adachi

81% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Xenotech has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 42 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xenotech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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42 reviews
1.0
23 Jan 2017

Jamming square pegs into round holes

Anonymous employee
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Pros

XenoTech has an extremely relaxed environment in terms of responsibility. They operate under flex hours, allowing employees to pick their work hours around a 6-hour core window. There is no established WFH policy - allowing non-lab based employees to "work" from home several times a month.

Cons

Managers of XenoTech struggle to lead. The typical managing style is "because I said so". Planning is almost non-existent. The company thrives on being reactive, hardly ever proactive. In the book 'From Good to Great", Jim Collins claims that successful companies which strive for greatness achieve it by ensuring the right talent (people) are put into the right situations (jobs). This concept is foreign to XT. They randomly move people around and place them into vacancies - completely ignoring talent, abilities and potential. Seniority is the major deciding factor with any promotion or career advancement. Merit can often go ignored or unnoticed, while departments are given to people after 10+ years of service, with a complete disregard for employee competence.

2.0
9 July 2016

Scientist I

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Small company, a lot of nice people. Can be lenient on certain things. Takes safety seriously. Due to personnel shortages you can get experience in different areas you normally wouldn't. Work life balance is great

Cons

Pays way below market. HR and management seem to attempt to either ignore that fact or try to rationalize it away. High turnover rate (25%+) which could be a good thing if everyone above you leaves it tends to suck people into higher roles faster. So intent on cutting costs to the determent to the rest of the employees (having short falls in certain groups due to not enough personnel. Dislike for parent company causes a lot of distrust within the company. Too lenient on certain actions (hostile work environment on occasions)

4.0
7 Aug 2015

fun atmosphere

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Xenotech is a smaller company so you get to know a lot of people which makes it more fun to come to work everyday.

Cons

Because it's a smaller company pay is typically a little lower than bigger companies. Raises don't happen often and can be frustrating.

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