Invitae Reviews

Pros

Solid pay and benefits, healthy culture, galvanizing CEO, and a real mission to help people. I love working here and find my coworkers highly motivated and very capable.

Cons

You have enough rope to hang yourself with, so don't get complacent. It's a place with a relatively serious tone, so if you're into goofing off with your coworkers you'll find it takes a bit of time to coax people out of their shell and to be social.

Pros

* Coworkers are all engaging and willing to help each other! * Freedom(work from where ever, 'unlimited' PTO, Flexible work schedule) * Perks(Snacks, $200 a year to spend on company swag, catered food twice a week, transit reimbursement) * HQ is lively * Pay( base with RSU's) is good!

Cons

* Have to either work remote with people in San Fransisco or move there. * Non HQ offices can be isolating.

Pros

Good Food and good catering

Cons

Room for Growth is limited

Pros

Ability to work remotely, good starting salary, excellent health insurance coverage.

Cons

Experiencing the challenges that come with a fast growing company; can be a little unorganized at times.

Advice to Management

Work on structuring and organizing the company a little more.

Pros

-Plentiful opportunities to learn new skills -Merit driven career advancement -DIY culture

Cons

-DIY culture can also be a con -Senior management struggles with sometimes communication

Pros

-Working with smart and passionate people -Flexibility of working remote and outside of 9-5 style -Meaningful company mission

Cons

-Constantly changing directions and not putting enough resources into what drives business -No applicable training for individuals in management roles -Growing pains with expansion and recent acquisitions -Little room for advancement -Lack of titles/responsibilities lead to a lot of confusion, overlapping work and miscommunication

Advice to Management

Create more structure without micromanaging. A lot of people are killing themselves and overworking and there are quite a few collecting a paycheck and not contributing.

Pros

Interesting work that makes a real difference in people's lives

Cons

Whatever they tell you they'll do for you when they hire you will disappear when your hiring manager leaves.

Pros

* There's a strong sense of team, and limited hierarchy * Communication across teams is TRULY transparent * Benefits and compensation are excellent * Competitive Salaries * Superb Stock incentives and Bonuses * Several locations and a flexible work remote policy allowed for comfortable commute and live work balance

Cons

* Possibly grew too fast over the last year * There are some struggles to balance the scalability between growth of sales, acquisitions, and the difficulties of navigating the health insurance landscape to manage cost and profit.

Advice to Management

Be careful of growing to fast, over-scaling resources, or knee-jerk reactions to industry & market changes. (However, I think Invitae has been handling better over the last couple of months)