Good Company with Lots of Opportunity, but base salaries are lacking - Product Specialist Roche Employee Review

3.0
Jul 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will learn a great deal about capital medical sales. The company is in a transition as it becomes more integrated into the Roche culture.

Cons

The company views promotions as a privilege vs. paying employees for the greater responsibility & more work that will be performed. The company cannot survive without their Specialists (product-specific experts) to help the Account Executives accomplish their jobs, as selling, contracting, negotiations, etc. are very complicated. And yet, Specialists make nominally more than Account Executives, even though they work harder & have much more responsibility. No wonder they have a hard time keeping Specialists & filling the vacant Specialist positions.

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Cons

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Pros

Excellent Employee Benefits and beautiful facilities

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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