Good work life balance, limited upward mobility - Anonymous Roche Employee Review

4.0
Dec 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good work life balance of work, occasional night calls due to time zone differences. - Colleagues in general are very respectful of your time off, and rarely do they disturb you on your time off. - Flexible work arrangements, hybrid working model of once per week in office. - Mostly healthy work culture here, there are some politics but none so far have cripple work and deliverables. - Overall compensation package is not bad, base salary is average and there's definitely companies who can pay higher out there, but you may sacrifice some benefits of working at Roche. - Option to order free lunch whenever you're going to the office.

Cons

- Constant changes and you're never going have certain processes or settings stay forever, or even past few years. - Product portfolio although diversified, but current landscape from a global perspective is not looking all sunshine, some product line are losing money but there are also other products that makes record breaking revenue and that balanced out overall revenue. New acquisitions and investments may not be making money so soon. - Upward mobility may be a little lacking, but horizontal moves are more possible and it's up to you to take charge of your career growth.

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 4, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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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