Great but tarnished - Program Manager Genentech Employee Review

3.0
Dec 28, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Genentech has great benefits and science. The company attracts the best and brightest talent. Also, the diversity has been great before 2020.

Cons

The diversity and inclusion efforts has been creating as unhealthy environment if you are white. The lead, her passion, with management backing has been one sided, especially when she invited speakers who describes the evils of white supremacy and white privileged. I have been focusing on the work until I heard disparaging remarks about white people that is borderline racist.

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Pros

Patient-centric company. great culture & benefits

Cons

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2.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

The work is meaningful and overall the company vision aligns with my goals

Cons

QA management has become inept. None of the leadership (aside from maybe one or two) truly understand the nuances of our site and jobs. They refuse to pay you more due to "budget" reasons but won't provide much information, they claim to be transparent but will make decisions behind your back and not communicate them, even if they impact you and/or your job. Leadership doesn't listen to feedback and gets defensive if you even try to give any. It honestly has become a game of politics only in QA and that's not really building any real quality culture.

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