Benchling Reviews

Rating Score3.8 29 reviews
  • 5 24%
  • 4 38%
  • 3 31%
  • 2 3%
  • 1 3%

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  • 3.4 Career Growth
  • 3.4 Work - Life Balance
  • 3.0 Compensation / Benefits
  • 4.0 Company Culture
  • 3.1 Management
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Rating Score2.0
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3Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
1Management

“Run ”

Verified User Current Employee · I***** · Product Marketing New Grad - Aug 3, 2021

ProsGood benefits
Coworkers are nice
Company is doing well
Product does somewhat good in the world

ConsA lot of what someone else said, do not work here unless you like putting out constant fires and band managers:

Company is 500+ but runs like a startup
So much technical debt feels like the work will never end
No real procedures or process so everything is a fire
No boundaries, slack messages anywhere from 6am to 10pm
Hard to think long term or affect change
Teams are full of fresh college grads that are clueless
Leadership is clueless didn’t hire managers that actually know how to manage
Everyone is too “nice” unwilling to admit or face actual issues so nothing changes
A lot of people are unhappy and unwilling to admit it Bc they want to hang on till ipo
Work is siloed by teams hard to work cross-functionally

Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
4Management

“Great company, but work life balance is lacking”

Verified User Current Employee · f***** · Senior Back End Engineer - Apr 23, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
5Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
4Management

“Amazing place to do real good”

Verified User Current Employee · u***** · Software Engineering Manager - Apr 2, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
1Management

“Startup culture”

Verified User Current Employee · V***** · Implementation Manager - Mar 2, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
4Management

“Good”

Verified User Current Employee · D***** · Engineer I - Mar 1, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
3Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
2Management

“Benchling is building an awesome product but internally needs work to become a world-class org.”

Verified User Current Employee · b*** · Implementation Consultant - Feb 22, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
4Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
3Management

“Overall great. Room to improve like all companies. ”

Verified User Current Employee · F***** · Implementation Manager - Feb 17, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
4Management

“We’re here: awkward growth phase”

Verified User Current Employee · E***** · Customer Experience Manager - Feb 2, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
5Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
3Management

“Great mission, great people, interesting challenges”

Verified User Current Employee · J***** · Software Engineer - Dec 21, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
5Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
5Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
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“Lovin it”

Verified User Current Employee · N***** · Engineer - Dec 20, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
5Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
4Management

“Some growing pains, but strategically exciting times ahead”

Verified User Current Employee · h**** · Software Engineer - Dec 8, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
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“Growing pains, but overall great company with great mission”

Verified User Current Employee · j***** · Customer Experience Manager - Nov 14, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
2Management

“Mixed bag”

Verified User Current Employee · p********* · Recruiter - Nov 10, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
3Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
2Management

“Interesting mission, smart and kind people with high EQ, growing pains”

Verified User Current Employee · k***** · Software Engineer - Nov 10, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
5Career Growth
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4Compensation / Benefits
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“Nice people, high growth, high complexity”

Verified User Current Employee · c***** · Software Engineer - Nov 8, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“better than most”

Verified User Current Employee · C***** · Sales Development - Nov 8, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
3Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
3Management

“good wlb, low comp”

Verified User Former Employee · L***** · Engineer - Nov 2, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
3Management

“Good culture. Unclear career growth”

Verified User Current Employee · e***** · Implementation Manager - Oct 28, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
2Management

“Interesting industry, smart people, scaling issues”

Verified User Current Employee · o***** · Software Developer - Oct 26, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
5Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
4Management

“Mission driven”

Verified User Current Employee · H***** · Implementation Consultant - Oct 20, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
3Management

“Transparent”

Verified User Current Employee · l***** · Software Developer - Oct 11, 2021

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Rating Score1.0
1Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
1Compensation / Benefits
2Company Culture
1Management

“Slow promo, low TC, bad managers”

Verified User Former Employee · I***** · Software Engineer - Oct 1, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
2Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
2Management

“Mixed Feelings”

Verified User Former Employee · P***** · Software Engineer - Sep 28, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
2Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
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“Awesome mission ”

Verified User Current Employee · i****** · Program Consultant - Sep 23, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
3Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
1Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
2Management

“Needs improvement ”

Verified User Current Employee · f***** · Sales - Sep 13, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
3Work - Life Balance
1Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
3Management

“Good mission but poor execution”

Verified User Current Employee · a***** · Engineer - Aug 26, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
4Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
4Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
5Management

“Amazing culture and opportunity”

Verified User Current Employee · q***** · Software Engineer - Jul 2, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
3Career Growth
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4Compensation / Benefits
2Company Culture
2Management

“Good potential but falls short”

Verified User Current Employee · I***** · Product Designer - May 26, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
5Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
5Compensation / Benefits
5Company Culture
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“Fantastic culture, empathetic thoughtful people, worthy mission”

Verified User Current Employee · O***** · Staff Software Engineer - Oct 20, 2020

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