23andMe Employee Reviews | Comparably
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23andMe, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is a leading consumer genetics and research company. Founded in 2006, the company’s mission is to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome. 23andMe has pioneered direct access to genetic information as the only company with multiple FDA authorizations for genetic health risk reports. The company has created the world’s largest crowdsourced platform for genetic research, with 80 percent of its customers electing to participate. The 23andMe research platform has generated more than 180 publications on the genetic underpinnings of a wide range of diseases, conditions, and traits. The platform also powers the 23andMe Therapeutics group, currently pursuing drug discovery programs rooted in human genetics across a spectrum of disease areas, including oncology, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases, in addition to other therapeutic areas. read more
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23andMe Employee Reviews

Out of 52 23andMe employee reviews, 72% were positive. The remaining 28% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping 23andMe improve their work culture. The Engineering team, with 57% positive reviews, reports the best experience at 23andMe compared to all other departments at the company.

What do you like best about the leadership team?

Leadership Reviews

Transparency and willingness to share

Transparent, focused, goal-driven and everyone is mission-driven

I like that our leadership team is very open when we have questions about projects/things that are going on within the company.

What is the best part about your compensation package?

Compensation Reviews

All equity is worthless and leadership seems afraid to talk about it

The base salary is fair and slightly better than average market rate.

Review from Engineering Dept

Paid family and paternal leave

Stock for early employees are pretty good

Review from Engineering Dept

Total package = Base + Bonus + Options + great Benefits package

What are some of the best things about your team?

Team Reviews

Knowledgeable, friendly, and always ready to help.

collaborative, helpful, friendly, forward, and always pitch in to help

Review from Engineering Dept

My team members care about one another and definitely want to help each other and support each other and I feel like they have my back.

Smart, motivated, and agile team

I am lucky to work with excellent engineers and brilliant scientists at this company. Even after 4 years at the company I am still learning a lot working with other memebrs of my team.

Review from Engineering Dept

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Environment Reviews

supportive, collaborative and friendly, while maintaining excellency

Review from Engineering Dept

Everyone seems pretty excited about the work that they are doing and people like to collaborate.

Great teams and coworkers internally

Strong mission-driven culture and belief in the product

What did you like most about the interview process?

Interviews Reviews

Meeting the team I work with

Efficient and friendly people who conducted interviews

Review from Engineering Dept

What makes you most happy at work?

Outlook Reviews

Great colleagues and working environment. Decent perks and employee support.

Interacting with my coworkers and feeling like we are making a major impact

Building systems that improve our machine learning model pipelines. We do this by automating and productionizing these workflows and allowing our scientists to get better insights fasster from our database.

Review from Engineering Dept

I love the interaction between coworkers and departments. Most departments collaborate and it enhances our culture.

What do you like best about your company?

Outlook Reviews

I receive a paycheck twice a month.

I love its mission, vision and my colleagues

Review from Engineering Dept

It does feel like the company still retains a little bit of the "start up" culture wherein people seem excited about what they're trying to do and there's a lot of cross-functional collaboration. 23andMe also definitely clearly cares about being mission-driven.

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