Is Roche a good company to work for?

Roche has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 10,877 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 82% of employees would recommend working at Roche to a friend and 68% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Roche have been left by employees working as Praktikant , Praktikant/in and Intern .

Does Roche pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Roche employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Roche. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Roche?

82% of Roche employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Roche 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Roche?

Intern (278) , Internship (169) , Estagiário (130) , Project Manager (119) , Manager (112) , Scientist (96) , Product Manager (84) , Senior Scientist (72) , Data Scientist (71) , Field Service Engineer (61) , Director (58) , Software Engineer (57) , Senior Software Engineer (56) , Business Analyst (54) , Principal Scientist (48)

What are the pros of working at Roche according to real employee reviews?

"Benefits are good but used to be better...job security used to be good but now is gone forever." ((in 831 reviews)); "Great culture of respect for people and innovation" ((in 545 reviews)); "Great place and people with objectives that benefits society" ((in 464 reviews)); "Good work life balance (one of the best in the companies that I have worked for)" ((in 411 reviews)); "Stability and good salary compared to other companies" ((in 267 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Roche according to real employee reviews?

"In some departments management is poor and doesn't control the business and the internal processes." ((in 226 reviews)); "Too many managers per one engineer." ((in 103 reviews)); "Some portions of senior leadership in Tucson are creating an environment of fear and finger pointing." ((in 90 reviews)); "Senior management can be obtuse, HR processes are achingly slow, a lot of institutionalised people" ((in 40 reviews)); "long hours and constantly busy" ((in 39 reviews))

What are employees saying about Roche layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Roche layoffs and their outlook for job security at Roche in 2026.

What Roche locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Mannheim , München , Penzberg , Grenzach-Wyhlen

Roche reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,445 total reviews)

Thomas Schinecker

85% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

Roche has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,445 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Roche employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews

3.0

Oct 21, 2010

Senior management is lacking

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-good salary and benefits -extra vacation -Just hired an American head of diagnostics who has some good ideas -Severin is making good progress

Cons

-The company constantly puts the wrong people in management positions. Getting ahead is all about networking and who you know, not about your performance. The result is a whole rotten pot of the same type of manager - micro manager, narcissistic, insecure and no personal skills. -The global department IS NOT global..... not many employees who have international experience, or even global management skills for that matter. -Not an EOE. Male dominated in Germany

3.0

Feb 21, 2016

Secure but...

Product specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Secure environment, almost impossible to get fired, relatively good salary. Training opportunities at the beginning. Mobile phone for free (it's not a pro, but could not think of anything else to fill in the 20 words).

Cons

Total lack of objective evaluation. Never explained to employees why some things are happening. A colleague with extremely low performance, who was 50% of the time absent in two years, got promoted and nobody ever understood why. Salaries are totally not performance based. One must just fool them at the interview and will enjoy a higher salary for ever without doing anything. Tarif scheme is totally communistic and performance-killing. Germans are always promoted much easier no matter their performance. Management is extremely poor. Motivation is killed. You are just a headcount number. Complaining pays off to make you shut up. Mannheim location is UGLY.

2.0

Sep 18, 2017

No development at Roche

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Working environment because of multicultural teams. Strong culture & values in some entities but not in mine.

Cons

Bad management decision created a huge waste of time and money. For instance, business managers deciding technology with no background. Too much politics. Each entity is isolated from others, no possibilities to change project or location. No career or development plan. No transparency created a lot of rumors and frustration. When people started leaving the company, they did not try to evaluate the reason.

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Grenzach-Wyhlen

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Customer Partnering Manager (m/w/d) im Bereich Multiple Sklerose - RRMS; Aachen Krefeld

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Mehrere Labormitarbeiter (m/w/d) im Bereich NPC Manufacturing Quality Control - befristet

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Praktikant:in im Service Außendienst Medizintechnik im Raum Hamburg, Hannover, Bremen (m/w/d)

Produkt- und Kommunikationstrainer:in (Sales Trainer)

Grenzach-Wyhlen

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