Roche reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,465 total reviews)
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Thomas Schinecker

86% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Roche has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,465 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 24, 2019

Complete let down

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Pros

At one point a thriving company with tonnes of opportunity. People were innovative, and worked together to make a difference.

Cons

Corrupt senior management, extremely political and fearful culture, values aren’t truly lived. Not enough focus on the science and too much incompetence.

1.0
May 30, 2019
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Pros

I dont see any apart from colleagues. They are really nice and willing to help at any time. All in all and from my experience, I would just advise not to work in the site (not in Roche as a company but just in this location)

Cons

Sant Cugat Digital Hub (just talking about my experience there) : This site does not take care of employees. It is not the mission of the Site to keep people / Talent. That explains the high grade of people rotation. Every month people are leaving and new ones are coming. There is a big lack of structure, this makes difficult to work for the department and to understand what they expect from you. Flexibility concept of this site have a total different meaning here many times. It means that you need to be flexible for working at 18.00, 19.00, 20.00, 22.00, etc. They sell it as something good but it is not the case because of that reason. Even though they say the opposite and they really believe it, there is still the culture of, if your boss is in the office you must stay in the office till he leaves. The Digital Hub and Diabetes in general works like a big Silo. This means that if you are expecting to be able to make a career from here forget about it. Maybe Roche Diagnostics (in San Cugat as well) it is different and it is worth to try. If you want to live in Barcelona, then it will take at least 1hour by public transport to reach the site. It does not matter where you live in the city. At the end of the day it always take 1 hour (forget about the car because of traffic jams). Instability due to lays off planned in US and Germany (Roche Diabetes)

2.0
Mar 18, 2019

Pros and cons

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Pros

Great benefit and amazing offence

Cons

Bullying is common unfortunately. Work life balance isn’t really there

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