Grifols reviews

The company is stuck in the past with their processes and methods, which a lot of work and time could be saved if there was incentive for improvement. Everything is done last minute. Management is weak and rude (specially the Spanish ones, yelling and cussing is common) and the leadership is immature and doesn’t know how to deal with pressure; promotion there is based in politics in most of the cases, not in merit. There’s no culture established there and there’s no sigh there will be one. People come and go often. Folks who stick around for long are comfortable with their position or get a good salary.

Way below average pay made worse by a wage freeze in 2021 and likely again in 2022. There has been a slow exodus of people across multiple groups over the last 4 or 5 years and upper management has been unwilling to provide backfill or has shipped the positions off to Spain where they can get the same position for 70c on the dollar. As a result you sometimes have teams of 1 or 2 people remaining that are trying to do the work of a 5 or 6 person group. Corporate decisions are TERRIBLY non transparent and non timely. People from Emeryville and across the US are now being let go if they do not relocate. Many are long term employees with great performance track records. Virtual meetings to discuss this relo are NOT recorded so HR can always deny something promised in these meetings was ever discussed. Barcelona calls all the shots and you will never ascend to the top ranks of the company if you are not Catalan or a "friend of the family". Several recent high profile upper management hires seems like good people but do not have the qualifications for their role, but they have the "right" last name.