Eli Lilly Reviews

Pros

Great benefits. Fantastic city to live in.

Cons

Slow to respond and top heavy.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the employee more.

Pros

Leader in the industry
Excellent training

Cons

Promotion based on whether or not you have a masters degree.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to your people (sales reps), be transparent regarding advancement opportunities and projects.

Pros

1. Good benefits
2. Good opportunities, challenges
3. Good people to work with

Cons

1. Company going through tough times.
2. Ceiling on pay being reached, no baseline increase in 2012.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Don't outsource so much, invest in employees in the downtime.

Pros

a great team, excellent opportunities for training, adequate staff, self-realization within the framework of cross-functional team, a competitive salary, bosses, and understands the creative atmosphere in the team

Cons

there is some red tape, not too fast decisions, including strategic, too much attention to the traditions, lack of innovatives, a specific statement of the problems

Advice to Senior Management

continue to work in the same spirit, to continue to pay attention gloablnym problems and ensure a high level of production - as is happening now.

Pros

Good pay, flexible hours, freedom

Cons

Difficult to move up despite top performance

Pros

Pay is pretty decent
Benefits are great considering the economy
Respect for People that is working there
Workers are pretty nice, for the most part

Cons

Communication is lacking, especially in management
Promotion Opportunity is lacking, especially in manufacturing
Location is not the best, but it could be worst
Vacation Time
Low expectations

Advice to Senior Management

Expectations are sometimes extremely high due to the lack support they give you. Running a process and improving it isn't hard. It all the extra projects that they sometimes give you, that is too much.

Pros

Lilly has totally flexible work hours and is very "family friendly." The compensation, salary and benefits, is very competitive. The work environment is first class. They are moving aggressively toward a mobile workplace, unfortunately this does not extend to freedom to work from home without strong coordination with your supervision. It is a well respected company in the community and in the state.

Cons

While this is probably typical for most large businesses, it is a highly political environment. Networking is extremely important. "Organizational memory" is very long. While they encourage you to take risks, you need to be certain that it is a risk you can overcome. Failure is not an option and if you fail, it will follow you for a number of years as your career stalls. This may not be universal and maybe mitigated if you have done the "required" networking ahead of time. This gives your management a chance to "spin" your failure into something with less impact.

Advice to Senior Management

It is very hard to see significant capital improvements being made while in the process of shedding 5,000 employees. Things will be great for those who remain. It is also tiresome to hear how great our product pipeline is, when the financial results don't materialize. (This is not unique to Lilly and is a problem with all pharma companies.) That said, I must say I cannot image a company that handles layoffs in a more generous manner. Sometimes the business climate demands a contraction of the workforce and Lilly handles it about as well as it can be done.

Pros

Collaborative culture and respect for each other

Cons

outsourcing too much to save expenses losing valuable specialized knowledge

Advice to Senior Management

not being a business manager I cannot advise but there has to be other answers than outsourcing

Pros

The work is just fun and meaningful. Patience stop you to tell you that you made a difference in their lives. You makes friends all over the territory with your doctors and their staffs. Never a dull moment!

Cons

I found that the increased pressure from the FDA to limit what reps can and can't say got extremely frustrating.

Pros

Nice people, Nice office, Strong values

Cons

Too much buracrecy, Some politics

Advice to Senior Management

Listen listen listen