Freenome Engineer reviews

From people leaving left and right to people being let go, the general sentiment across organization is fear, as high performing individuals are being let go & underperformers are not held accountable. Everyone is just trying to save themself and not the product, and there is real fear if we will make it to the end. This is creating unnecessary stress and instability amongst employee which will impact delivery of the product. Unrealistic timelines or constant pushing of timelines.

There are two significant problems that need to be addressed if Freenome is going to survive. The company does not yet understand what it means to be in the medical device space. Most employees are fresh out of college or have only worked in consumer tech. There is active resistance to performing the additional tasks required to work in a regulated industry. This could prove catastrophic down the road. The company is openly political, including having the word "woke" (!) on some of their corporate clothing. Company stresses its self-defined special culture which is 50% of the selection process. They (apparently) perform periodic cultural fit reviews on employees so you might lose your job if you are not "woke" enough. Some employees obnoxiously virtue signal their preferred pronouns in their signatures and on Slack. HR really stresses the seven protected classes, and they seem more focused on their program of equity and inclusion than on hiring for ability. We all know these are activities and code words for antipathy toward certain ethnicities and genders viewed as being some kind of oppressor. This makes the well-intended "special culture" feel oppressive and distinctly unsafe.