Seattle Genetics Employee Reviews about "company culture"

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Company is expanding a lot so you move around quite a bit.

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Compensation is not very competitive

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Poor senior management with the exception of CEO. It was shocking to see how little they knew about the target/drug discovery/development process and how little they understood the science behind the targets.

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The mid-level management is a mess. New strategies being rolled out on a regular basis, infighting and competition drowns out teamwork.

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growing pains and departments tend to run a little lean

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Management frequently discounts the expert advice and opinions of their reports and departments. There is not career mobility. Major changes are made without communication between groups, often causing disasters.

IT Management is a mixed bag. Some of the application group managers are great, but the leadership in the Tech Services group is very lackluster. Employees are not invited to be a part of decision or even the conversation and there is very little communication both within the group and between the groups

Recent changes in Lead roles have caused stress as new lead(s) are vastly unqualified/untrained, moving into new roles with no training. The change was made without guidance and has caused a significant amount of stress for them and their new "teams".

The number one complaint of the IT Department for the last 3-4 years has been a lack of or poor communication. Nothing has been done to resolve it other than halfhearted efforts that peter out within a quarter.

Most groups are on-call and volume has increased of late to a dramatic degree. Unaware of any planned change in compensation as a result. There was a company-wide decision to allow WFH, but IT is the only group excluded as far as I'm aware.

The big one is that there isn't any career development. In the last 4-6 years there have been three or four promotions in the entire group. No career ladder at all and management knows and does not care to fix or address.

Below average compensation for area. Good stock/401k/benefits.

A lot of instability and firings in the last year. Colleagues have been let go under questionable judgement.

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company is just now adopting some regular work from home options for on campus full time employees. As such there are a number of growing pains related to webex meetings. Teams also operate on the leaner side and therefore work life balance can sometimes be stretched.

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As the company grows bigger in size, opportunities for lateral growth is significantly harder compare to years ago when company was still relatively small. They want to retain their employee, but there is not much priority or opportunities for internal candidate who which to expand their career path and develop their career laterally. Internal transfer can be very tricky depending if your manager is opened to it or not.

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Lack of durable decision at senior management level - 2 steps forward and 1 step back pattern

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No option to work remotely in spite of the godawful traffic in the area.
The programming department has a lot of misogyny in it. There is also bad blood between the programming and biostatistics departments which is taken out on the programmers, and HR doesn't seem to want to do anything. Managers tend to play favorites which affects career growth. Taking sick leave and vacations is frowned upon and sometimes not allowed.