Highly variable leadership skills among people managers; a bad manager can derail your career - Associate Director Genentech Employee Review

2.0
6 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great salary and benefits; a motivational company mission; good work/life balance, great reputation

Cons

Wide discrepancies in leadership skills among people managers, company values individual performance over managerial and leadership skills.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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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