You're only here for money, but you'll be miserable earning it - Anonymous employee Genentech Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay/benefits are good for Oregon. About the best manufacturing plant to be at in the area aside from Intel. Not good for a major pharmaceutical company though, especially the benefits

Cons

- No leadership at Hillsboro, none. No one is held responsible for their work scope. The main job at Hillsboro is avoiding work. People wear sweatpants to work at jobs where they make over 100K at. This isn't a tech company. - You'll spend most of your time figuring out who is responsible for a task only to have the responsible group try to avoid it when you finally track them down. - Engineering leadership is pretty spectacular as well. Try nailing down the Directors to do their jobs. Not sure they've ever worked as Engineers with their low level of technical knowledge on plant systems. - Quality seems like they're fairly miserable at the site. A lot of people pulling long hours to compensate for bad business processes and managers

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Cons

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3.0
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Cons

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