Genentech Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
Genentech is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines to treat patients. read more
EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
353
TOTAL
RATINGS
2863

Genentech Environment Employee Reviews

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

The peole are motivated to help patients

The leadership team takes care of the employees and the style trickles down to line managers. I appreciate how caring my manager is, while giving us the independence to run our own projects.

we believe in diversity and inclusion different ways of working, different ways of thinking and different cultural backgrounds

Leadership and management try to be supportive

People and progress, everyone working toward doing what patients need next

the diversity and also inclusion

Review from Operations Dept

Family-like, collaborative, great VP leader

I love the environment within my team/department here at Genentech. I find that literally everyone I interact with is kind, open to new ideas, and is very supportive.

People are helpful and smart

Very forward thinking, the transparency and the people

Relaxed and comfortable at the same time focuses deeply on quality of product.

Familial, fun, and great mission

We are in an open space environment.

Everybody has a voice

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Transparency, alignment, oversight, recognition, focus

too much tolerance of bad behavior and inefficient or subpar work

Pay more. Genentech pays the least out of all the major bio tech companies.

Review from Operations Dept

Review Sentiment at Genentech

76
76%
24
24%

About Genentech's Environment

B+
72/100

Where This Score Ranks Genentech's Environment

TOP
20%

In the Top 20% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
50%

In the Top 50% of 738 companies in San Francisco

3rd

3rd place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Genentech is considered positive by 81% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 42 employees. Relative to its competitors, MedImmune, CVS Health, Merck, Pfizer, and Gilead Sciences, Genentech's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Top 20% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Top 50% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Sales
    +14%
  • Department - Customer Support
    +13%
  • Tenure - 5 to 10 Years
    +12%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Operations
    -17%
  • Tenure - Less than 1 Year
    -16%
  • Department - Marketing
    -14%

How Genentech's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 119 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less8%
852%
1030%
125%
More than 125%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast17%
Comfortably fast39%
Moderate28%
A bit slow6%
Bureaucratic10%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive81%
Negative19%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes14%
No86%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes77%
No23%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less38%
5-10%19%
10-25%25%
25-50%13%
50%+5%
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