Exact Sciences Employee Reviews
Out of 134 Exact Sciences employee reviews, 66% were positive. The remaining 34% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Exact Sciences improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Open and honest feedback given. They listen
encourages professional development and work life balance, fail friendly environment
Polished, go-getters and aggressive mandate.
Leadership can be fairly transparent about challenges faced by the organization. More attention needs to be paid to issues faced with new acquisitions and scale-up.
Smart business decisions are made
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Leading and less gossip, less intimidation
Need to do a better job with decison making and long term vision and strategy.
The disorganization within the company is astronomically high. Every time someone gets a minute promotion, it goes straight to their head and they start pretending they're the CEO.
Having more honest imput fron the field.
Make sure people leaders are good fits for those roles. Some should be individual contributors.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Benefits are good and so is vacation.
They offer reasonable health care premiums.
Health insurance with wellness discount and RSUs
Retirement matching program, Restricted stock units
Generous stock and PTO. Good benefits but workload makes it challenging to take advantage of additional perks and benefits.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
They offer stock, but the stock market is a cesspool of fraud, corruption and greed. The stock has lost well over half of its value since I have been hired on, so my 20k in stock has gone to less than half of that, and I haven't even been awarded any yet.
Men are paid higher than women in this organization.
I'm undervalued as a person constant fear of being fired constant fear of leadership shutting you out.
ALL employees should make $75,000.
Different management! HR that cares. Equal opportunity. Management and HR stop showing favoritism within the company. Be more transparent with people.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Collaborative, caring, and work well together
Motivated and helpful individuals with good ideas and skills.
Everyone is eager and willing to learn more .
Intelligent team and largely hard working team that is truly inspired by the core values. Can see there is some corporate waste though. Poor performers seemed to be allowed to maintain their mediocrity without striving to work hard.
They actually go out there and function as coherently as anyone can without 'any' direction from the so-called leaders.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
We have way too many meetings
They don't train you well and then they blame you when you make mistakes
Valuing diversity and stop using the "patient care" excuse for accepting sub-optimal, counter-productive, mistake-prone processes.
Stand up for what is right
Exact is like many other companies in that 20% of the employees do 80% of the work.... they just need to identify that 20%, pay them more, and keep them knowing the work is going to get done.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
People generally seem down to earth
PTO is highly encouraged to take.
The team is overall driven by the company's core values.
Outstanding colleagues and a legacy of changing the cancer paradigm
Integrity hotline and great core values!
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
New leadership in lab. Friendlier, kinder, respectful people are desperately needed!
remove culutre of vanity and encourage solutions from all levels
Start taking care of the people that make the business go around, not patients that you never see anyway.
It won't. I'll leave. That would be my recommendation for anyone who cares about their career.
The ability to have evaluations independently reviewed and anyone who can be trusted. There's no one it's safe to report problems with leadership. If you try all you did is make yourself a target.
What did you like most about the interview process?
I interviewed for one position at PreventionGenetics - lovely. I then interviewed for one position at Exact Sciences - terrible, intimidating, and loaded with acronyms
Very friendly and welcoming interviews
I liked the people. But I don't even work with a single one of those people.
That it was short and brief
Ease of interview, lots of laid back manners in some.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Make the hiring manager do the work
Get rid of the standardized questions.
I interviewed with 9 people for a technical role. It was excessive and challenging, 3 days of sleeplessness and anxiety. Worth it in the end, though.
The people doing most of the interviews are lazy cowards that couldn't spot a work ethnic with binoculars.
Shorten the lengthy process and be more efficient. Ask deeper question instead of using a standard questionnaire provided by HR.
What makes you most happy at work?
Customers value the company a lot
I enjoy finding solutions to problems for clients
Mission, great people, recognition for doing a good job
Working towards a great cause.
Knowing that my skills and contributions are valued, knowing that I am contributing to saving people's lives.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Everything is wrong. They need to change their structure, leadership, and integrity.
Leadership who encourage and support all levels of workers, and who care about products, not just their own importantance and positions
What's going wrong? Can you say - extremely idiotic, incompetent people professing themselves as leaders?
Management is out of touch with their employees and middle managers are incompetent, making them useless as an escalation point for technical issues.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Mid-level managers are ineffective and bureaucratic