Genzyme Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme

Pros – Company spends a lot of effort on relatiive training. Respectful and friendly attitude among co-workers and from management to employees. Good values.

Cons – Unsertainty - since the company is in process ob being bought by Sanofi

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than a year

Pros – Friendly people in Framingham.
Good benefits.

Cons – Many people are miserable. Overworked, and "failure is not an option."
Disorganized. Processes are overly complicated.
Very hard to be successful.
Management is inexperienced.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at turnover, and determine the reasons for it.
How can you expect an 80 hour job to be completed in 40 hours?
Is it just me? Or why is everybody else complaining?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Great work environment and facilities
-people take pride in their work

Cons – Limited opportunities to get trained cross-functionally

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good benefits (bonus, vacation), great culture, good people, driven.

Cons – HR; difficulty moving laterally within the company. Internal candidates treated no different as if they were 'off the street'.

Advice to Senior Management – Change policy on internal candidates: idea: offer internal candidates an informal interview with the HM before throwing their CV in the 'candidate not selected' bin. Good talent walks out of the door every day.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Stable job. Steady growth. Low turn over rate. Good benefit (401k match and vacation days)

Cons – Lack of energy. Growth is getting slower. Promotion is based on seniority. Lack of incentives for hard working individuals.

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management need to focus more on the incentive programs that motivate employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Genzyme as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Good Pay
Good Benefits
Friendly Work Environment

Cons – New work environment may cause many changes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme

Pros – Good benefits/vacation time. Everyone is pretty friendly for the most part. Management does a good job in my department.

Cons – So-so pay for the amount of hours and work. People jump around a lot from department to department in order to get decent pay increases. Sometimes feels like Quantity is more important than Quality.

Advice to Senior Management – More focus on employee retention and professional development.

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good benifits and good job security.

Cons – Salary not as good as it could be.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme

Pros – great what thye do for patients, great benefits

Cons – seem to not learn from some of the major mistakes that have been made

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Genzyme full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Smart, motivated people; good products

Cons – The Allston Landing manufacturing facility has a problematic history. The result is a strange culture, which simultaneously wants to change but is deeply entrenched. Bureaucratic bottlenecks prevent obvious improvements from being made.