Cepheid Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"The director in the instrument engineering group is fake and bad. But she is super good at playing politics and puts on a nice face in front of people, until you get to know the problems, that is. She practices favoritism and biases, very probably attributed to her own fear and past experiences, so said she, that people ignored her because of her gender. But guess what, that doesn’t justify practicing favoritism and biases at work. Worse than that is that she retaliates against her direct report when he defends his functional needs and interests. She pretends that it’s the direct report’s fault of not being flexible or not maintaining positive communications, despite that it has been her playing politics and favoritism and ignoring the direct report. She then manipulates information and intentionally messes with the performance review. When pointed out what she did wrong, she plays stalling tactics and never fixes the problem. Most people know that she is very weak in technical. But she seeks to form alliances with those who have political power and have the authority to promote her. She knows politics is the only way for her to stay with the company and climb the ladder."

"A medium-sized business running like nothing more than a start-up."

"Lodi location had a lot of hard workers, good managers but the location had no career growth."

"It was a great experience, enhancing both technical skills and personal relationships"

"People are nice and really easy to get along. In terms of growth is a little bit way too slow and pay is not that good. People come and go because of salaries and growth. Overall, if you don't care too much in terms of moving up to the next level. This is the place you want to work for the rest of your life with a fix percent rate each year."

"Great products, turnover rate above average."

"Very high turnover rate."

"Great product, great technology, long road of growth ahead as a business. Needs to work on work life balance and should be looking more closely at their internal culture for their success and talent acquisition in the long run."

"Great job. I wish they could have kept me."

"Use people for their knowledge then make up excuses to release them but pay well during that period"

What do you like about working at Cepheid?

"New technology"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be Careful- place a buyout requirement in offer letter"

What don't you like about working at Cepheid?

"Cannot break into clique that have worked there since inception"