DNAnexus Reviews

3.0

46% would recommend to a friend

(65 total reviews)

Thomas Laur

36% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

DNAnexus has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The DNAnexus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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65 reviews
1.0
5 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Very good Pay - above the norm. Might not be the case anymore

Cons

Chaotic company internally. Very aggressive senior management / leadership - do not listen to the troops on the ground. Product roadmap did not exist except in the drivel that leadership spewed out.

2.0
24 Sept 2019

Where's The Science?

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* An excellent investment if you are starting out in industry, the network you develop in the science team is stellar (just look at where former DNAnexus scientists are working now) * Scientific employees are/were unparalleled in the field in terms of talent

Cons

* Bioinformatics team vastly undervalued * Science team has all but disappeared * Culture of unpaid overtime is toxic, people work over weekends, holidays, on vacation * Rapidly outgrowing office space * Prioritizes the needs of "superstars" over the many good employees, driving people away

2.0
1 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the brightest minds in the industry, if they are still there by the time you join. Pay is great for an entry level job, and you will be pushed to learn a lot, and very quickly. A year or two at DNAnexus will be an excellent investment in an early stage of your career. Excellent learning opportunity, join this startup to see what happens when doers' teamwork makes a company successful and "superstars" are brought in to "scale up".

Cons

Unpaid overtime is the rule. You will work on weekends, in the evenings, during your holidays. If you code; if you don't, you could probably work 9 hours a week and no one would blink. Toxic politics, teamwork for management is a zero sum game. Managers will actively sabotage career opportunities for their employees, as they feel constantly threatened by their own inadequacy. Most senior management has no basic understanding of the Genomics industry, so the entire business strategy is based on abandoning everything that made DNAnexus successful, desperately chasing other companies who actually know what they are doing. With 90% of the executive team doing sales and little else, the best exit strategy for DNAnexus is sharing the spoils.

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