Eli Lilly Reviews

Pros

Opportunity to make a difference in health and well-being of patients. Large company offering many departments to develop a career. Co workers are generally excellent. Benefits are awesome.

Cons

Company is isolated, has not had to compete with other "games" in town; as a result, old-school is struggling to both keep power as well as transform to keep up with the times.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop marginalizing emloyees with extra-Lilly experience. We are partnering with a growing number of external contractors; redo the Quality systems to facilitate this.

Pros

The employer really does look for the best interests of the employees and tries to do what is right.

Cons

Promotions determined on popularity by managers

Advice to Senior Management

Going in the right direction

Pros

Great pay. Nice town. Smart colleagues. At the principal research scientist level and above, You are generally given the freedom to decide what to do and how to do it. This is a place that openly celebrates promotions and devotes a day to do so, with spouses. Family friendly. Interesting mix of very creative and very conservative approaches.

Cons

A lot of pressure to produce results. Promotions don't always go to the best performers but to the people that play the game well and smooze with key decision makers. Can be cold and snowy in the winter.

Advice to Senior Management

Value teamwork more and do not micromanage.

Pros

The best reasons to work at Lilly are people, respect to employees, and professionalism. The senior leadership cares about employee's opinion and take it seriously.

Cons

Uncertainty about the future of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is doing great and is heavily committed to reach the goals.

Pros

Lack of accountability. Career opportunities. Great facility although poor location. They reward a strong work ethic so very easy to advance.

Cons

Not enough accountability. Group is far too nice. Too much deadwood and underperformers. Place is a ghost town at 4:30.

Advice to Senior Management

Make people accountable. Set strong and SMART goals. Trim the fat and complacency. Do not worry about offending people. Remove silos.

Pros

Great people from mid level managers down. Lilly still has the ability to make a difference in the lives of people.

Cons

Poor executive management, poor loyalty for employees, compensation and benefits are unremarkable at this point. All and all the company has been managed into a run of the mill pharma company. Very sad!

Advice to Senior Management

Business majors run businesses and chemistry majors run labs. Never the two should meet. Failed business plans and a lack of vision has created an environment of fear. No longer is the free flow of ideas the norm. Instead people just want to make the next cut of job layoffs.

Pros

Great benefits, pay, wonderful peers

Cons

Financially not doing well which leads to lots of job losses and outsourcing. Very stressful atmosphere with managers who don't care about employees.

Pros

encourage people to do deeper research besides routine study; compensation good and low living cost; people are very nice and smart.

Cons

if you live around downtown, safety may become a real concern. don't go out late at night alone. take your GPS with you home instead of in the car.

Advice to Senior Management

I think Lilly is a great company. It respects its people as it promises. I see people are working hard and they LOVE this company.

Pros

The good things about Eli Lilly are that they have an established market presence, good networking opportunities if you try, and generally nice people who are willing to have coffee with you and chat about life and business.

Cons

Some positions are assigned a lot more work than they should have. I saw many people who have too many assignments that they might as well have been paid 2 times their current pay. The salary is not the top of the line, and you must get used to the location because you won't be traveling much for most of their positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should consider alternative ways approaching the high R&D structure experienced by pharmaceutical companies in general. Growth opportunities should be expanded.

Pros

Compensation and respect for ppl

Cons

Indianapolis not the most exciting place. Patent loss has been a challenge with job security