Eli Lilly Reviews

Pros

Work/Life balance is favorable and salary is competitive for the area.

Cons

Job Security is currently low.

Pros

Commitment to diversity. Great products and pipeline. Respect for employees. Ethical company. Good salary and promotion opportunities. Strong benefit package. Headquartered in Indianapolis, which is a great Midwestern city with a lot to offer and a good cost of living.

Cons

Like most large companies, Lilly can get bogged down with process and bureaucracy. Sometimes, decisions can take longer than they should to be made. Also, to reach certain levels of the company, one would need to move to Indianapolis. While it's a great city, not all are able to move here.

Advice to Senior Management

Make decisions more quickly without needing so many pilots or six sigma projects. Mistakes will be made, but it's worth the risk to get more things going. Continue the great job you are doing with regards to diversity and respect for people.

Pros

Great benefits, good salaries, good people, great working environment.

Cons

Very political, not much opportunity to move up as they are in an outsourcing mode. It it not what you know but who you know that get you ahead. IVY Leaguers got it made.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat everyone with respect and see them for what they bring to the table not who they socialize with.

Pros

Decent compensation for early in a career.
Opportunities for career advancement.

Cons

MDs don't have time to see reps anymore
Pharmaceutical industry is no longer a "long term" career move
Big brother is constantly monitoring the "check the box" model

Pros

Job at Eli Lilly is relatively stable.

Cons

Employee's performance management is one direction only for most of employees----depending on supervisor's personal opinions even if they are not fair or objective.

Pros

Good total compensation package. The company is a good place to work because it is working to truly improve the lives of people around the world

Cons

Revenue losses have translated into many cutbacks of people. Less work is getting done and morale in IT has plummetted as more and more people get cut loose

Advice to Senior Management

Better find some new products before it is too late.

Pros

Pay & benefits are the best around. Lilly only hires the best out of schools so if you are not academically challenged you will love this place. There is no doubt that making pharmaceuticals is not a simple process and this company does strive to do it the very best.

Cons

All those intellectuals never get anything done! They simply debate things ad infinitum.
Management doesn't run things. They allow the "geniuses" to run things and never question them.
Politics and cliques rule.

Advice to Senior Management

The company has had it so good for so long; now that changes are necessary, there is a rock hard set of long-time employess in middle management that isn't going to change and jeopardize their retirement.
The outsourcing is not going to be the savior of the company in the long run. Don't do it just because every other company is.

Pros

-Job flexibility
-profession growth opps
-training
-compensation
-company car
-networking

Cons

-manager can make or break your experience

Pros

good place to work. Large

Cons

to large. Get lost. too far

Pros

The company showes respect for employees.

Cons

The company has too much bureacracy.

Advice to Senior Management

The company would benefit from streamlining processes.