Pacific Biosciences Reviews

Pros

great technical management and friendly environment

Cons

Slow marketing and sales, great technology, just slow in sales

Pros

Lots interactions with colleagues across multifunctional departments

Cons

Not much growth space for lower level employees

Pros

Nice place to work, great peple

Cons

a lot of micro-management from upper levels.

Advice to Management

listen to your employees more

Pros

Great team who works well together Flexible manager who lets us direct our own projects

Cons

Too much politics in certain departments Retention of employees who do not work well with others

Advice to Management

Encourage more communication between executive management and employees. They seem out of touch and even uninterested in engaging with non-managerial employees. Base decisions on facts and logic, not the seniority of the person who brings the idea.

Pros

Definitely the perks of work/life balance. In my years of experience I never work for a company that are very relax in allowing employees to work less than 8 hours/day. Many employees also work from home. Also they have great products and very smart engineers.

Cons

Tough competition in selling their products. Top management is unable to execute revenue goals for many years and have to do raise money for operating expenses which resulted in their $2 stock price.

Advice to Management

The company has been in this mode for several years. Top management need to identify and make hard decisions of what work and what doesn’t work as far as business decisions.

Pros

- Good product: a state-of-the-art DNA sequencer with innovative technology invented by the founders and tec - Good people: smart, capable, helpful, and nice people, with an unhyped culture of contribution, support, and friendliness - Good company: excellent purpose; generally well-directed, well-organized, well-managed company I worked under two excellent managers at PacBio, definitely among the very best managers...

Cons

- Challenges in the market, despite product quality and continuing innovation and technological advancement - Changes in organization, management, and staff with loss of valuable contributors and disruption of culture

Advice to Management

- Continue to prioritize innovation and technological advancement - Take organizational steps to recognize & retain valuable contributors and to support culture

Pros

Nice people Provides salad bar Technology has great potential, but competition is catching up. Promotion is easy, just ask management and they will hire someone under you, no experience or training is required Flexible working hour, 4 out of 5 days from home is acceptable.

Cons

No 401K match. Management clueless, unqualified and waste money on projects without any ROII. Lack of Communication/Lack vision. Amazingly political for a small company No real growth, except to fine tune your political skills.

Advice to Management

Have a focus strategy and go after it, communicate down to achieve understanding and alignment.

Pros

Relatively fun and casual environment. Generally nice people to work with.

Cons

Slow environment, needs better organization. Too many telecommuters.