Good benefits, poor priorities - Senior Lab Technician Roche Employee Review

3.0
Nov 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Roche has wonderful benefits, and has a lot o offer. They are a global company, constantly evolving and providing ways to improve. Once you are an employee, it is hard to loose your job. Almost everyone I’ve worked with has been pleasant and helpful (with a few notable exceptions)

Cons

The length you are at the company is valued over your level of experience. Their disability program is extremely difficult to navigate. They lowball salaries and extremely underpay contractors, and do not easily negotiate, if at all. It is fairly easy to move positions within roche, but management is frustrating, and there is a clear hierarchy.

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Roche Response
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We appreciate your thoughtful comments. We are working hard to ensure our employees are inspired and engaged to do their best work so that we can bring medicines and diagnostic solutions to patients faster. As every other organization we keep on learning constantly, we learn from our success and from our failures, as a team. Thank you indeed for sharing your valuable input with us. We can ensure you, we are already working on how we could build your feedback in and transform it to a drive in our learning process. Thanks for your review, we wish you all the best for your future within our company.

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