Gilead Sciences Employee Reviews about "gilead"

Pros

Gilead is helping to change the world through SCIENCE and the company as a whole cares about its employees.

Cons

I cant think of one.

Pros

Lots of opportunities due to small team. If you are very hard working and intelligent, Gilead provides ample opportunity to showcase talent to many people. Great benefits, which are what keep me at Gilead. Along with the very intelligent and collaborative people you can learn from cross-functionally. Compensation is superior to that of Genentech at the lower levels but equal at the higher levels. Teams are very equitable and there is a good amount of focus on DE&I. C Suite/EVPs (e.g. Dan, Andy, Johanna, Merdad, Jyoti, etc) seem to know what they are doing. Several of the new VP levels feel a little lost.

Cons

Lots of responsibilities due to small team, which requires flexibility. Promotions slow to obtain. If you are an exceptional employee, you get a promotion in 1-2 years (if lucky). However, the Team is growing so fast with lots of external talent, but these external recruits due to the competitive job market are less experienced and accepted with less rigor. They also attain very high titles. This leaves older very high performing Gilead employees training their managers and feeling snubbed of a promotion (Gilead does provide short term incentives, which help the high performers but in the long run it doesn’t make up for the differrnce). Eventually you train your manager to do his/her job and he/she with less experience is telling you what to do.

Pros

There are lots of really smart and talented people to work with but also real managerial bullies. I recommend Gilead to start a career, you will learn more there than any other pharma company, and you can later take you skills anywhere. But you have to do so at the expense of being overworked. Later career development is limited. Benefits good. Back in the day, ISO's stock options were available. Thanks Gilead for opportunity to make strategic investment choices that made a lot of money!

Cons

I had a great career learning at Gilead for about the first 10 years. Then by mid 2010's the companies continued growth caught up and over took the small pharma structure. On the CMC side of the company, the entire pipeline of projects continues to flow through a handful of now VP's and exec Directors who have been about the same group from the early 2000's when there were only 3-5 programs in development. Now its around 20 programs, and the leadership team has no time to devote to any one of them while trying to still direct all of them. Add to that massive head count growth, an IT infrastructure that will constantly "upgrade" to a system that is 3-5 years out of date at the time of implementation, and operational excellence programs lead by people that have no experience or expertise in the topic - e.g. You are in QA, OK - people are unhappy so go lead an operational excellence team to address the issue. You get assigned a team of random chemists etc. also with no relevant experience to the topic, work on it for a year or more and have a 60 minute power point at the end that says, yep people sure are unhappy. Meanwhile, the situation is getting worse at the mid career levels because talent is moving to other opportunities, and those remaining are taking over by default.

Pros

Gilead allows eager, motivated, proactive and resourceful individuals the opportunities to grow and develop their own careers. There is never a lack of opportunity to take on more and truly learn and grow. Amazing pay and benefits. Multi layered benefits for health and wellbeing and other fringe benefits. Mission driven company with a lot of purpose. Taking the time to understand how we work, why certain things work the way they, and what we give back makes working for Gilead feel really good. You truly feel like you're contributing to our mission every day. Smart, driven talent you can learn a lot from

Cons

If you're passionate about your work, you'll find yourself working a lot of hours. The tools and resources needed to get impactful work done quickly are not always there and so man hours are needed.

Pros

I must acknowledge that the interview process with Gilead Sciences was the best that I have experienced thus far in my career.

Cons

No cons to share at this time.