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  • "Benefits are good but used to be better...job security used to be good but now is gone forever.(in 537 reviews)
  • "Great place and people with objectives that benefits society(in 345 reviews)
  • "Great culture and focus on people(in 283 reviews)
  • "Good work life balance (one of the best in the companies that I have worked for)(in 242 reviews)
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  1. 5.0
    Current Employee, more than 8 years

    Great work environment

    Jan 27, 2018 - Germany in Penzberg
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Science driven environment, e.g. focus on novel therapeutics rather than generics. Lots of career opportunity. Clear vision and strategy by senior management. Many nice colleagues.

    Cons

    Big company environment prohibits rapid change. More diversity needed in middle management. Culture is still too hierarchical in some departments.

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  2. 2.0
    Current Contractor, less than 1 year

    You have been warned...

    Jun 1, 2018 - Contractor in Kuala Lumpur
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Free breakfast, Free chocolate milk every Tuesday, Generally friendly co-workers,

    Cons

    Clueless and unethical senior management. Treat contractors like disposable tools.

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    4 people found this review helpful
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  4. 2.0
    Current Employee, more than 3 years

    Low salary

    Feb 5, 2021 - Product Executive in Mumbai
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Working space as an individual

    Cons

    Politics and senior management is not great

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  5. 2.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    great staff, poor systems, much to slow to market, poor management, promotion based on how much broen nosing you do!

    Nov 14, 2019 - Diabetes Services (Not Providing Full Title) in Burgess Hill, England
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    excellent supportive staff, nice offices, resonable pay and benefits,

    Cons

    Diabetes care is a disaster zone at present, wholesale redundancies (50+ out of 140 staff) jobs awarded without due process to whomevers face fits, very poor staff moral due to uncertanty of role and financial situation, appaling behaviour by some senior management who are rude, conceited and incapable of perfoming role, ( or just unable to perform their role). senior management who boast about their salaries and the value of their expense account whilst people are being made redundant. very slow to market, new services and offerings 2-3 years late, massive market errosion, not a place to work at present, steer clear as you wont/cant make a difference

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    4 people found this review helpful
  6. 1.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    Toxic Work Culture in Santa Clara Sequencing

    Feb 18, 2019 - Anonymous Employee in Santa Clara, CA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    - The sequencing technology is interesting and has potential to move personalized medicine forward in the future. - Free snacks and breakfast fare. - Work/Life balance is pretty good. - Roche appears to be centralizing all of their South Bay and Peninsula M&A targets at the Santa Clara site and turning it into an "Innovation Center". Could be a good opportunity to be able to transfer across many teams.

    Cons

    - Toxic work culture and management. Employees are sometimes publicly berated in meetings. Weekly meeting(s) are masqueraded as somewhere to share data and information across groups, but actually function as arenas where groups face off against each other vying for power and recognition. Back-stabbing and back-biting of teams against each other is commonplace. Fear, competition, and mistrust permeate the entire organization. - Lack of concrete direction and strategy from executive and senior management leads to entire site scrambling for goals and direction every year. - 'Innovate Now' and 'Speak Up' are two of the cultural beliefs, but almost no one is allowed to do anything innovative or out of the box. Anything that bucks the status quo is immediately met with resistance. 'We already tried that and it didn't work', and then not having any data to back up claims seems to be the default response. People catch on quickly, stop trying to contribute new ideas, turn on 'coast mode', and become 'yes' men or women. - Salaries are consistently below what other companies Pharma, Biotech, or Technology companies in the Bay Area are offering even though HR claims they are performing salary comparisons. People leaving for new opportunities regularly secure 30-40% compensation increases. Stock options are only offered to a select group of software engineers, data scientists or directors and above, good luck everyone else! - Contractors are treated like second-hand citizens, and I have seen many cut loose before their contracts are up. I even witnessed one case where the contractor was given only 4 days of notice before being told they were being let go. - Points above lead to a large number of disengaged workers that are trapped and looking for a way out. I have observed employees actively job searching in the open office environment and even in the middle of meetings that they are supposed to be engaged in!

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    23 people found this review helpful
  7. 4.0
    Former Employee, more than 10 years

    IT in the US be wary, good company overall.

    May 5, 2014 - Technology Solution Manager in Nutley, NJ
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Good benefits for all Roche employees. Highly competitive salaries with bonus and depending on your level, stock options. They do a great job of providing top notch healthcare, dental, 401k matching and so forth. They value personal time and all the managers I had were great to work for except one (he is no longer with the company). I would still be with the company if they didn't shut down the location I was at. Each time I was impacted by a restructured job, I was able to get a 10% retention bonus for my stress (you would get it if you stayed to your end date as well). Very good severance package when large groups are impacted.

    Cons

    I worked for Roche for 14 years and other than the last 5-6 years it was a great company. My advice is if you are working for Roche in the IT area, you are at risk of yearly stress of losing your job due to restructuring and sending jobs around the company/world. In the past 6 years, my job was impacted 4-5 times. I had to either apply for a new job or take a package and leave. All of these were due to OPEX realignment of personnel. Senior management would move head count from one location to another without always understanding what they were doing. The latest push in the US is to send IT to Genentech in CA, Madrid, Spain or back to Basel, Switzerland. The Nutley location was closed down after 100 years of service and the US headquarters shifted to Genentech. The merger of Roche and Genentech has not been the smoothest. Each company is still a separate entity and supported by different IT departments. Genentech has not experienced the headcount loss experience as of my last day. They are in for a shock once it does. You have to keep in mind that Roche is the typical Swiss based company, and Gene is the typical San Francisco company. They are on completely opposite sides of the spectrum. Roche is extremely process driven, cost conscious (with regards to IT) and doesn't like to deviate. Gene is agile and flexible with the mentality of 'get the work done as quick as possible.' They don't let cost act as barrier necessarily. Gene is able to bypass process and make their internal customers happy with rapid turn around times. This is the direction Roche is trying to go but with processes still in the picture.

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    4 people found this review helpful
  8. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 3 years

    Not a progressive company

    Mar 18, 2019 - Former Manager in Pleasanton, CA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great talent, opportunities to meet with senior management on a regular basis, can grow by taking advantage of different job opportunities internally

    Cons

    Lacks innovation. Senior management does not consider the amount of great talent available within the organization when making strategic decisions. Also very politically driven.

    5 people found this review helpful
  9. 4.0
    Former Employee, more than 5 years

    Good Company. Great Benefits. Would recommend to a friend.

    Feb 27, 2019 - Senior Scientist in Madison, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Solid Company to work for. Nice compensation package with great benefits. Working environment has a lot of flexibility. Great people to work with. Overall experience was very positive

    Cons

    Lacking in advancement in opportunity. Feels like the vision communicated from senior management and the day to day activities are somewhat misaligned.

    2 people found this review helpful
  10. 4.0
    Former Employee, more than 10 years

    Giod

    Jun 6, 2023 - Product Manager in Jakarta
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Good to work nice place

    Cons

    Pressure and bad leadership of thr senior management

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    Roche Response

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    Thanks for your feedback and input. We firmly believe that every employee at Roche deserves an excellent Leader – someone who inspires and encourages teamwork. For this reason, we formulated the “Leadership Commitments” in 2012 based on the input of 1,500 senior managers. They set clear expectations for today and the future. The aim is to promote and emphasise the importance of good managers at Roche. We expect everyone to demonstrate these commitments every single day. Every employee deserves great leaders. We expect all of Roche's leaders to inspire and motivate employees in their team and support them by offering opportunities to continually discover, learn, develop and excel. Thanks again for your review, we wish you all the best for your future.

  11. 3.0
    Former Employee

    Paycheck: Good. Reward: Not so much.

    Jun 18, 2008 - Account Manager in Nutley, NJ
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Large company with plenty of funds available for investment or acquisition. Drugs will receive national and international attention - even if that attention is primarily negative in recent years.

    Cons

    Senior management (NAOC) has very little idea of how to actually run a successful sales organization. They get bogged down in the task-oriented society where everyone at Nutley is busy CYA. I can't believe more heads didn't roll after the horrid way they handled Cera in the United States. Plan B? No, we don't need a Plan B. If Actemra hits a few snags (and why wouldn't it?) plan on Roche NA being significantly smaller in 2010 than it was in 2007.

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