Great company, but falls short on equitable treatment of the workforce - Associate Director, Finance Genentech Employee Review

3.0
Dec 11, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The company has competitive pay, great benefits, management say the right things, and I believe they want to do the right things.

Cons

Management plays favorites with preferred employees in pay and promotion that goes beyond difference is demonstrated skills and tangible contributions. In Finance organization, excessive importance placed on commodity skills of "business partnering." Result is that core technical Finance and Accounting skills are not cultivated, support groups with these skills are small, and all technical work is channeled to these small groups as few people can or want to do it. Sr. management is more focused on their own self promotion than on developing their organizations.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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