Genentech is a great place to work - Group Manager Genentech Employee Review

5.0
Sep 13, 2010
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Pros

Genentech is focused on improving the lives of patients with serious and incurable diseases. Every employee can clearly see how they are contributing to this goal. It is a very fulfilling job with very competitive salaries and benefits packages.

Cons

Genentech was recently purchased by Roche pharmaceuticals. With this merger they grew overnight from an 11,000 person company to an 80,000 person company. The culture is quickly changing, work-life balance is becoming a thing of the past, and the focus of everyone's work is becoming unclear.

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5.0
Jun 6, 2026
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Pros

Great salary and team! The interview process was smooth and effective.

Cons

To be determined, but so far many alignment meetings. Some folks have frustuations around the re-org and strategy changes.

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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