Roche reviews

The politics in this organization is worse than any other companies I worked in. Managers downplay each other and team members to show credibility. Too many useless meetings whereas everyone show the same slides over and over again. Most of the talent ones have left this company already.

Barely anybody speaks English. Most of the employees, including payroll, do not speak English, even though I was told otherwise on the job interview, to the point where I was told multiple times to 'ask a colleague to translate' some official communication. Lots of career development is based on who was your university colleague or who your partner is. Management lies, often publicly pretends they didn't hear about an issue while in reality it was raised with them a couple of weeks previously. They behave patronisingly, lie about the salaries (which are very poor comparing to other corporations in the city). Staff changes all the time and is not respected. I spent min. 10h at the office every day - out of which 9h was regular, as it included an obligatory 1h break. Horrible life-work balance.