Director in Technical Operations - Anonymous employee Genentech Employee Review

4.0
Sep 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Wonderful people, great mission and good physical work environment/employee benefits at South San Francisco campus. The GNE management team is really working to maintain as much of the "old" GNE culture as possible -- much appreciated.

Cons

Being a subsidiary of Roche; working in global roles (hours, intensity, lack of senior management shared values around people and compensation between Roche and GNE). The day-to-day work experience for GNE Commercial vs. GNE global groups (Tech Ops, Product Development in particular) are completely different as the global groups serve a different master (Roche).

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