IT Needs Some Work - Anonymous employee Genentech Employee Review

2.0
Feb 15, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has an innovative technology focus, and sincerely wants to try new things. The culture is diplomatic and friendly. The organization takes work life balance seriously.

Cons

The underside of all the talk about innovation is that the IT organization doesn't know how to get there. The pace of change is slow, and managers have a hard time resourcing experiments. Gender diversity is a problem; there are entire groups without a single female employee. Men are disproportionately promoted into management positions, even when their peers, regardless of gender, see them as unqualified or semi-competent.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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