Extreme bias within management - Research Scientist Cepheid Employee Review

1.0
6 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Diverse teams, lots of great co-workers, improvement mindset, kaizen, learned a lot!

Cons

- Unconscious bias in workplace (one round of layoff, they fire only immigrants regardless of experience, years at company or degree) - Political promotions - Hiring of unqualified or underqualified people but actively hindered qualified experienced people from moving up if they do great work because they can't be replaced (I saw this a lot in the technical band) - Very hard to be promoted from technical positions. They promoted people from technical bands to R&D then sent them back to their original positions during layoffs but after layoffs, refused to give them those positions when hiring back because 'they couldn't be spared'. - Toxic management environment for higher levels (P2,P3,M1). Half of the project management and regulatory team quit in 2024 - Frequent changes in managerial direction (bought a plant in China, spent millions then closed it down. Made major, expensive changes but shut down the idea after money was spent. They cost the company LOTs of money (sorry for grammar mistakes, English is not my first language)

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company Culture. Supportive environment

Cons

Temporarily impacted by Post-Covid sale drops.

1.0
25 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent Comp for a Biotech, Okay WLB, Product is decent and good mission

Cons

Layoffs pretty much every quarter. Most of the good folks have left. The parent company makes decisions that directly impact associates at Cepheid

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