Dysfunctional - Do the CEO / CTO really care? - Anonymous employee GeneDx Employee Review

1.0
1 Nov 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work - maybe? Not sure as many of us were "forced" to work long hours - e.g. weekends on software releases and working with off-shore devs (Europe / India) and west-coast colleagues

Cons

I really don't know where to start - Sema4 bought GeneDx without any apparent due-diligence, the platforms were tightly integrated with the legacy owner of the software, rather than figure out how to do this properly, management forced unrealistic timelines to get this completed. Sema4 tech management stayed away to ensure they weren't "blamed" for the mess. Middle managers at GeneDx were isolated and not supported - and took on many tasks that they were not responsible for to "get the job done". Once much of this was completed - there was a lot of Monday Morning QB - questioning decisions that the team made and reversing them 180. Nepotism is rife - Management from Invitae came in and have laid off the majority of GeneDx / Sema4 employees replacing them with their colleagues at Invitae - Come on seriously Matt, we can't all be bad employees. I realize it's easier to blame existing staff - but how about taking that huge amount of institutional knowledge and working with them. My new manager's style of management was to quote from Ted Lasso to me - don't get me wrong, I love the show - but seriously....

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