Great Product, Not amazing culture or teams. - Anonymous employee Freenome Employee Review

2.0
20 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was competitive and the facilities are great. The product itself is genuinely meaningful and easy to get behind. I worked alongside some few talented, good-hearted people — unfortunately, many of them eventually left due to the culture issues described below.

Cons

There are way to many people who are extremely toxic and self serving there. Whether it was within my own team or interacting with others many were only looking out for their own teams interest. Toxic people are left alone by management due to perceived need or viewed as hard to replace. This resulted in multiple good people leaving to avoid it. Instead of dealing with it they let it fester for years. This creates the sense for these people that they are untouchable because in a sense they are. Many I would consider instances of harassment. We went through multiple rounds of layoffs during my time there and they crippled the morale of the company. Made a bit more doom and gloom and it was hard to bounce back from. Health insurance was sub par compared to other companies and industries.

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Cons

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Pros

The company is ambitious and is building a product with the potential to significantly impact its market. Engineering execution is fast moving and leadership is highly focused on meeting delivery milestones.

Cons

During my time at Freenome, the organization did not have dedicated security leadership at the executive or VP level (e.g., no CISO/CSO or equivalent). Product and enterprise security responsibilities appeared to fall indirectly under engineering and product leadership. As a result, security considerations were often balanced against delivery timelines rather than owned as a first class function. For a company developing and operating a regulated, safety critical product, this is an unconventional and high risk approach compared to industry norms. The VP of Engineering and Chief Product Officer are clearly driving execution and delivery. However, without independent security leadership, decisions related to risk acceptance, secure design and long term operational resilience are centralized within roles whose primary charter is shipping product. This approach differs from peer companies in regulated environments, where security leadership is typically established prior to external launch. It will be interesting to see how this model scales as the product matures and faces real world adversarial, regulatory and operational pressures.

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