Roche reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,453 total reviews)
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Thomas Schinecker

86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Roche has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,453 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
2.0
Oct 29, 2020

Toxic Workplace

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable employer, good benefits, and decent COVID19 response

Cons

The Nanopore project in Santa Clara is a highly toxic environment that has led to a lot of infighting and blaming of one another. You are punished if you do not accept the current dogma and any new scientific results that contradict will be repressed. There is no accountability of the projects leading to incentive for most employees to do above the bare minimum to keep their jobs.

3.0
Jul 25, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are a bunch of awesome people to work with. The project is super cool and involves multiple cutting edge technologies which is honestly pretty special. Consistent high attendance happy hours.

Cons

Upper management doesn't know what they're doing, how to hire managers, how to fire toxic employees, etc Still no sales. Below market wage. A lot of below average, hard to work with employees.

2.0
Jan 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some fantastic people and opportunities possible

Cons

The pros depend on who you work for. There are many people at Roche in the UK that are deadwood, sitting in senior positions without adding anything to the business. If you work for one of these people then you are generally fine if you can create benefit to them (ie make them look good; allow them to take all the glory) up to a point. However, if you have ambition and want to progress you will find there is little opportunity because of this deadwood. Even if you excel you will rarely find an opportunity because people like to keep you below your capabilities (this has a corresponding effect on pay, whereby Roche is in the bottom quartile of salaries). This has lead to a culture of bullying in the UK, literally dozens and dozens of people have been forced out as they are cheaper to get out the door then the 'lifers' that are bullying. The problem tends to be made worse by a HR department that panda's to the people creating the problem, because they lack the skills and experience to do otherwise.

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