Affymetrix Reviews

Pros

Good compensation, benefits, and culture.

Cons

Upper management needed a refresh.

Advice to Senior Management

Lots of talk about process at a high level, but not much in place to make sure processes are followed or understood at a low level.

Pros

biotech space, established brand name

Cons

company struggling for growth, ships is sinking!

Advice to Senior Management

talk to employees

Pros

Good people, strong brand, new products are better quality then those launched in 2009 & 2010

Cons

Too many priorities, products and directions

Advice to Senior Management

Prioritize and focus on what will have the most impact

Pros

Technology and field are wonderful.
Old Gaurd at company are creative and a joy to work with.
Launching products is fun.

Cons

Company gets in the way of its own success.
Terrible growth opportunities.
Poor reputation in industry.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a fundamental lack of understanding on basic economic drivers at the company. If they understood the economics of their business, they would be able to lower cogs, allocate resources better and be more competitive.

Pros

The market is great, too bad internally everyone knows there are serious problems and for some reason they don't address it, scary

Cons

Marketing leadership is obsessed with details that have no relavance.
Internal employees know they have serious problems and the attitude is, not my job, weird.
Marketing Management should be reviewed and possibly replaced.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of Marketing leadership and fix your products and prove your place in the market.

Pros

there were fun people to work with

Cons

lack of direction from senior management

Advice to Senior Management

let commercial drive direction, not R&D

Pros

People, benefits, flexiblity, managers, exciting work, lunch program, work from home option

Cons

Stock price, lack of market share growth, pay could be a little better, too many opinions from mid-upper management can slow processes,

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on inovation rather than continue to market struggling products. Make sure products come to market after comprehensive quality control.

Pros

Free food, promote from within, family atmosphere, market leadership, cutting edge technology, diversity, supportive upper management, generous tuition fee reimbursement program and prestige.

Cons

Management prone to make misstep, get out of focus and tend to be high flying leading to losing market dominance and leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

They should have kept the West Sacramento, Ca manufacturing facility because it is the only property that Affymetrix, Inc. owned and practically new and immaculate when it was shut down and move operation to Singapore.

Pros

-Good benefits for a mid-size company.
-Hard working and talented people, culturally diverse.
-Fair spot bonus/ recognition program.
-Great seminar program.
-Provides a fair work-life balance.
-Nice in house lunch program.

Cons

-Great technology that needs updating.
-Aggressive time lines in product development.
-Need rigorous in house product testing before introducing to customers.
-Too many managers.

Advice to Senior Management

-Unbalanced structure- too many managers for the number of people who work hands on.
-Insecurity about future is making many good people leave, management needs to be more honest about company's direction.

Pros

Very unique technology and ample applications
Skillful, Talented and Experienced resources/employees
Good and friendly working environment
Comparative salaries and facilities (considering Mid size company)

Cons

Beside having a talented resources not able to coverage in growth of business.
Unbalanced organization infrastructure, Too many managers and upper level executives

Advice to Senior Management

Too much focus on the Product development and lacking far behind in other functional area. Need DNA attitude (Daring, Passionate and Platinum) in other area for balancing/optimizing things.
Need fresh/new resources who can think out side the box..