GRAIL Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
GRAIL Claimed Company
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. read more
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PARTICIPANTS
161
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RATINGS
4548

GRAIL Environment Employee Reviews

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

Flexibility, willingness to learn and grow

Review from HR Dept

Growing company with a great mission

Review from HR Dept

The incredible mission drives the culture

We're doing something unprecedented at to a high standard

Review from Communications Dept

Hiring more diverse candidates and dei program

Review from HR Dept

The GRAIL mission statement and drive to detect cancer early.

Review from Operations Dept

Company culture is good in general. I like working with smart people around me. People have plan forward and most of all are very focused on what they do.

Review from Engineering Dept

Everyone being so invested in the mission and product

Review from Legal Dept

We can all feel good about supporting the company's mission

Review from Operations Dept

GRAIL is putting in effort to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Our mission is to have a significant positive impact on the human condition by identifying cancer early when it can be cured.

Review from HR Dept

mission which is focused on early cancer detection

Review from Product Dept

I think there is a willingness to listen and to support each other. People are communicative and warm. There is a lot of creativity in the discussions and a willingness to be flexible as we scale.

Review from Sales Dept

The culture is very inclusive and supportive. Everyone is there to support each other both in their professional and personal endeavors. And people take the time to recognize each other -- I love our internal chat board where GRAILers applaud their peers for various achievements on a daily basis.

Review from Legal Dept

People are truly mission driven which shows itself in many ways. Everyone is collaborative instead of competitive, different viewpoints are welcomed, and we have hired a new Diversity Director and had our first DEI week. That was cool :-)

Review from HR Dept

The culture is inclusive and you feel valued and appreciated as an employee.

Review from Operations Dept

too soon to tell, i have been here less than 2 months

Review from Engineering Dept

Strong alignment to the mission. Management has a realistic sense of what is takes to successfully develop and commercialize technology.

Review from Business Development Dept

The team is very supportive

Review from Legal Dept

The flexible time off is an incredible aid to a positive working environment. Employees want to know that their managers and companies care about their health and well-being...that includes taking mental breaks when necessary and supporting work-life balance habits. I also enjoy the independence I h

Review from Operations Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Personnel changes at the top (ELT); some senior leaders who are very competent, yet not in the right positions and are very negative, bullying and discriminating. Excruciating every day for the entire team.

Review from Sales Dept

Review Sentiment at GRAIL

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About GRAIL's Environment

A+
81/100

Where This Score Ranks GRAIL's Environment

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 738 companies in San Francisco

1st

1st place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at GRAIL is considered positive by 94% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 86 employees. Relative to its competitors, Color Genomics, Roche, Cepheid, and Guardant Health, GRAIL's environment score ranks in 1st place. This also puts them in the Top 5% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably and Top 5% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - Entry Level
    +4%
  • Experience - 1 to 3 Years
    +4%
  • Department - Communications
    +3%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Business Development
    -11%
  • Department - Legal
    -7%
  • Department - Marketing
    -5%

How GRAIL's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 159 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

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7 or less3%
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1040%
129%
More than 126%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
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Extremely fast35%
Comfortably fast54%
Moderate10%
A bit slow0%
Bureaucratic1%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive94%
Negative6%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
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Yes0%
No0%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
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Yes70%
No30%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less82%
5-10%14%
10-25%4%
25-50%0%
50%+0%
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