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Genentech

Employee experience Certification expired August 2020.

85%

Employees say this is a great place to work

Company Overview

About The Company

Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious diseases. We have multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

COMPANY SIZE

13,638 U.S.-based Employees
(Large)

INDUSTRY

Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

HQ Location

South San Francisco, CA, US

Employee Demographics

Generation

Tenure

Company Culture at Genentech

The employee experience below at Genentech, compared to a typical U.S. based company.

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85% of employees at Genentech say it is a great place to work compared to 59% of employees at a typical U.S.-based company.

Genentech

85%

Typical Company

59%

Source: Great Place to Work® 2019 U.S. National Employee Engagement Study

96%

I feel good about the ways we contribute to the community.

92%

I am able to take time off from work when I think it's necessary.

92%

I'm proud to tell others I work here.

92%

People celebrate special events around here.

92%

When you join the company, you are made to feel welcome.

Why Work at Genentech?

See what employees say about what makes Genentech a great workplace. These words are drawn from employee comments on the Trust Index™ survey.

Life at Genentech

Alexander Hardy, Genentech CEO, and Cynthia Burks, Genentech Head of HR, celebrated diversity and inclusion along with more than 700 Genentech employees, friends and family during the 2019 San Francisco Pride Parade.

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Genentech employees from our Pharma Technical Clinical Supply organization dressed as “Meet the Packers Clinical PackaGene” during our Bay to Beakers Children’s Walk. The event is part of the company's annual Genentech Gives Back Week.

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Graduates of Gene Academy -- Futurelab's after-school mentoring program for third through fifth graders -- celebrate in a ceremony on Genentech's campus. Genentech's Futurelab is a hyper-local STEM education initiative in partnership with South San Francisco schools.

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Employees participate in a bell-ringing event to celebrate the FDA approval of Xofluza for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated influenza in patients 12 years of age and older.

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On April 7, 2019, Genentech Employees celebrated Founders’ Day, which honors Herb Boyer and Bob Swanson, by taking photos of themselves holding a sign sharing “What inspires you about Genentech?” The photos were printed and made into a mosaic wall displayed on campus.

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Genentech employees created a mosaic by taking photo of themselves holding signs with what inspires them about Genentech. The mosaic is displayed on the Genentech campus.

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