Avoid sequencing: Hostile work culture lacking leadership - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Roche

2,0
5 feb 2019
Anonieme werknemer
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Pluspunten

- Overall mission to "Do now what patients need next" is inspiring. - "Work/life balance" is so good that I would describe working here as early retirement.

Minpunten

- Lack of coherent strategy. There seems to be little intentionality and executive leadership in Sequencing that affects all levels. - Decision-making processes are extremely slow and inefficient. I would describe it as a Kafkaesque nightmare. Documentation and meetings are mistaken for actual work. - A few extremely rude apples ruined the barrel. A senior technical lead once started a meeting with "Show of hands for who thinks ____ is stupid?", a contractor once posted publicly on LinkedIn asking how to decrease the influence of my role, a scientist at the VP level chastised me after thinking that I gave one of his reports constructive feedback (I hadn't, and the feedback was valid). A colleague thought it was normal to go to her car and cry after work meetings. This was an extremely unhealthy work culture, and I still get angry just thinking about many of the interactions I had. - Absolute lack of knowledge about software and software development processes.

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Good team with collaborative environment.

Minpunten

A bit low salary and unstable position.

3,0
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Pluspunten

Excellent Employee Benefits and beautiful facilities

Minpunten

As a seasoned quality professional I could not recommend enough that you stay far away from this company. The entire Global Quality program is run on gaslighting. Procedures are vague and cryptic and the management solution is always to just copy and paste from another site. You will be told to "speak up" and its an open and collaborative environment, but that could not be further from the truth. Roche is a toxic environment that is run by cliques that pick and choose who gets to succeed. If you dare to speak up you're targeted and ostracized. If you want to succeed there you just need to nod head in agreement and try to follow the cryptic task that is gonna set you up for failure anyway. Success is completely contingent on how well you gossip and politic. The "Branchberg Mafia" is run on emotions and direction will change day to day depending on how leadership feels that day. Again I recommend looking somewhere else if you're looking to make an impact and enjoy a challenge. If you enjoy being a sheep or like weak and emotional management. This is the place for you.

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