Upper management become "Me before We" - Anonymous employee 10x Genomics Employee Review

1.0
22 Jan 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You can learn how to develop products at a lightening speed.

Cons

They just announced the compensation change. The basic change is to take money from the mid career professionals and give money to upper management. They took away all the equity compensation from the mid/low career professionals. More bonus target to the upper management who are responsible for the stock price collapse. Upper management promotes "We before me" culture when they ask for more and harder work but they keep the culture of "Me before We" when it comes down to the compensation. Mid career professionals lost $50-100k in their annual total compensation by this year's compensation policy change while upper management collects more money and stocks.

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5.0
20 Mar 2026
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Pros

Fast-paced environment with regular product updates to keep things fresh and interesting. 10x does a great job hiring high-quality candidates, so we have very strong teams, including managers. It makes it relatively easy to support products when customers are excited to bring them into their labs.

Cons

No standout complaints, though there are relatively slow promotion rates.

3.0
7 Jun 2026
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Pros

Many talented and hardworking colleagues Great technology in single cell and spatial omics

Cons

Some key decisions are made based on politics instead of science or technology. Some project leads don’t have the basic knowledge of the techniques and don’t know how to organize a project properly , but are still allowed to lead the projects due to their personal relationship with the senior leaders. People who are closer to the senior leaders are promoted faster or hired with a higher title (sometimes don’t even follow the normal procedures of hiring or promotion), regardless of their contributions or technical skills. At the same time, many folks who do the heavy lifting work are ignored. Some people tend to over-advertise or even manipulate their results, which lead to a huge waste of time and money for others in R&D since the results are not reliable and repeatable. There are feedback surveys each year, but the concerns are rarely discussed seriously.

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