Complete Genomics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Complete Genomics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Exposure to cutting edge product development engineering IT

Cons – Many structural changes and did not feel stable

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Complete Genomics full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The people come from various backgrounds and the science is top-notch. The free food, snacks, vending machines, and drinks were great too.

Cons – Too many managers and not enough workers to do the real work. It has grown by mainly hiring managers externally instead of promoting internally.

Advice to Senior Management – Create a career growth path that promotes the folks internally instead of constantly hiring managers externally who don't understand what we do. Hire more workers and less executives and look at profit sharing for all instead of bonuses only for the top executives/managers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Complete Genomics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Scientifically very exciting, great technology.

Cons – Upper management is mostly from the software industry, low connection level in biotech sector, mediocre understanding of the biotech industry, which add up to poor management decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – (Impossible but...) upper management needs complete reform.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Complete Genomics full-time for more than a year

Pros – the company is helping to cure cancer and other severe, genetic deases; the jobs are mostly fairly exciting, crossing the realms of software engineer, molecular biologist, genomics / genetics, and manufacturing

Cons – it appears Complete Genomics is trying to create a market before it exists, and has insufficient capital to make that happen.

Advice to Senior Management – Install better controls to capture, earlier in the process, when genome analyses will fail and what causes the failures.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Complete Genomics

Pros – great technical/operational leadership
decent pay
attitude to make things better and change the world
great expertise in engineering and genomics
fast moving, start-up mentality

Cons – weak commercial department
HR is moving the start-up company towards complete "corporate america"
commercial team is proudly sharing how useless it can spend money
effective "complete" economical move: want to see pictures from the corporate x-mass party - you can buy them

Former Employee – worked at Complete Genomics

Pros – It offers a great product and service for the biotech field.

Cons – The company culture is very dry and not team oriented.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Complete Genomics

Pros – Good pay for upper level management to stay aligned. Not all of management is experienced with manufacturing or operations so one has freedom.

Cons – Leadership needs to focus on products and expansion instead of being over indulgent in their little unrewarding ideas that has no business rewards.

Advice to Senior Management – It is time to expand to create a revenue stream. Marketing and Sales need more qualified people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Complete Genomics

Pros – Small company, good growth potential. Fun to work for.

Cons – Need to work extra hard.

Advice to Senior Management – Need some headup for things that are coming.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Complete Genomics

Pros – Great technology platform. The sequencing platform has advantages over other next-gen offerings. Talented hardware and software engineers. Strong leadership in software engineering. A good research and development based company.

Cons – Customer facing departments of the company lack strong leadership. Management infighting causes morale issues. The future of the company is uncertain.

Advice to Senior Management – Compete on value added not price. Build a support organization that can keep up with customer demand. Mandatory pay cuts are not an effective means of managing budget issues.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Complete Genomics

Pros – Company is still doing decent, at least in the second half, and I still have a relatively good job with OK benefits.

Cons – Insecurity about the future of the company is what made very good people to abandon the company and fin their way somewhere else. On top of this the mid year lay off wasn't the smartest idea.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to be more honest with employees and do not treat them like second class kids that would not understand when the company is going down.