Stay away unless you are desperate for a job - Quality Gilead Sciences Employee Review

2.0
29 Nov 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, salary is competitive, nice campus, employee perks like bus service, free fruit

Cons

Upper management has been around for too long trying to run the company the same as when there were just a handful of people. This leads to micromanagement. A lot of your time will go towards creating presentations to provide info to upper management. They want to be involved in every little thing. Unheard of for a company of its size. Resistant to fresh ideas and changing their way of doing things. No work/life balance which they are quite proud of. Overall culture is terrible. It is extremely hard to get promoted which they are also proud of. Lots of arrogant people especially those who have been there a long time.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

-The only pros are the amazing benefits - probably the best 401K I've seen as well as the highly competitive salaries.

Cons

-Lack of culture is a growing and rampant issue - there is a very high level of favoritism -Micromanagement from senior leadership - instances occuered where they essentially forced an employee to resign and not directly fire him/her just so that they wouldn't have to pay severence package, etc. Managers want to just make themselves look good and make it clear that your only job is to acf as if they are God's gift to this messed up planet. -Lack of proper communication and frequent unnecessary team meetings held which are a waste of time and do not accomplish any desirable results.

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