Culture is terrible - Anonymous employee Gilead Sciences Employee Review

1.0
19 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smart scientists and had a great pipeline in the past. Weather is nice. Lunch offerings are good. Parking is plentiful. Free coffee.

Cons

People are jumping ship left and right since beginning of the year and everyone talks about how it is the worst culture for employees that they have ever worked at. Very smug leadership. Very insular. Very behind the times and just adopting values and offerings other companies have offered for years and only doing it due to pressure to compete and not because it is really believed in. Change will only come with a real shake-up at the C-suite which isn't going to happen any time soon.

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Pros

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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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