“Detailed interview process”

Pros:  “Very collaborative environment, open work culture.”

Cons:  “None that I can think of” – Full Review

“Great place for research”

Pros:  “lots of flexibility; you can do just about anything as long as you can find a way to pay for it not restrictions for collaboration opportunities”

Cons:  “day-to-day experience very dependent on group; no evident attempt to weed out bad group leaders as long as they bring in research money” – Full Review

“Manager”

Pros:  “Good engineer quality and execution”

Cons:  “Focus on short-term too much” – Full Review

“great experience working with a globl team”

Pros:  “a lot of project opportunities”

Cons:  “stressful environment. Poor work life balance in certain departments” – Full Review

“A Big Pharma - Small Biotech Hybrid Model”

Pros:  “At its peak time, RPA was one of the best companies in the life science sector in northern california. The culture, the environment, and the management are among the top…”

Cons:  “As a business in pharmaceutical R&D, RPA failed eventually to survive as a result of the parent organization's strategic restructure.” – Full Review

“Fun - throwback to another time”

Pros:  “Being an employee of Stanford; beautiful setting; some very smart people; very laidback; everybody friendly and mostly helpful; Buildings out of the 1960s, many do not meet…”

Cons:  “the relationship with Stanford is a positive experience that with the DOE awful, procedures and forms layer upon layer; very hard to move forward; Many people in…” – Full Review

“Very large corporate business style with some employee friendly benefits”

Pros:  “-Flexible schedule depending on manager. Able to work from home sometimes. -Large number of vacation days and holidays that are instantly available (Don't have to wait to…”

Cons:  “-Lots of legacy code. -While the processes are good to prevent bad code, it sometimes means slow software development cycles. -Many levels of management can…” – Full Review

“Great work environment, dedicated staff engineers, management should pay closer attention to project that get started!”

Pros:  “You end up working on interesting projects with plenty of very good designers that would offer valuable feedback. Atmosphere is emulating and there is a clear joy shared by…”

Cons:  “Some of the projects that are getting started are punishing unfairly members of technical staff that end up working on these projects. If the project gets cancelled…” – Full Review