Roche reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,440 total reviews)
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Thomas Schinecker

85% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Roche has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Roche employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutique et biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jun 15, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

This is specific to RMS - the Roche Pleasanton location. None

Cons

Sr. Management is very sleazy and nonstop pathological lying is the culture. They will push subpar/incomplete products out the door only to collect bonus $$ - then spend $$ millions having to redo or correct critical design errors ultimately taking years to correct. Work/Life balance is nonexistent and travel requirements are significantly higher than competitive /peer companies. Leadership style is "fear" based -- "Lie to customers or be fired" is the SOP RMD should be considered an embarrassment to Roche Holdings in terms of integrity.

3.0
Sep 12, 2023

Roche's Biggest Roadblock is Roche

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is insane, benefits are solid, and opportunities for growth are probably very good. Crazy talented people at the individual contributor level.

Cons

Processes are overblown and operational innovation is discouraged in favor of maintaining the cumbersome status quo. If you're not a "lifer" then you "obviously don't understand how business is done here". Complex bureaucracies dominate the management landscape, more so than other companies of similar size. Corporate leaders will hand down edicts with little consideration of the impact on people and processes that are affected, as long as senior managers are satisfied. Many middle managers are zealots who spout out vision statements without living up to those values.

1.0
Jun 19, 2018

RGITSC RDR/ Taichi School of Arts

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great office facilities, free breakfast. - Talented and experienced coworkers. - Challenging projects, great learning opportunities. - Get to learn and observe the art of how the local managements push away responsibilities and still telling everyone they did a great job.

Cons

- Bureaucracy, has a lot of unnecessary procedures and red tapes. - Inexperienced local senior management in handling IT projects(commit on projects with unreasonable timeline, ridiculosly low budget, and expect to build castle in the air). - Talented peoples are leaving really fast. - Local senior management has no respect for lower ranked staffs and contractors. - Dictatorship style by local senior management. Staffs that challenge their decision were told to leave. - Blames are pushed from everwhere and nothing gets solved. In the end all goes to lower ranked internal staffs and contractors.

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