GlaxoSmithKline Reviews

Pros

Large company

Fair compensation and great benefits

More resources

Regular hours

Work/life balance

Cons

Large company politics

Multiple years of staff reductions draining the talent pool in many areas

Losing institutional knowledge in favor of lowering costs

Pros

Above-average compensation and benefits pkg. Depending upon the area of business, telecommuting is encouraged.

Cons

Communication is poor. Sr. mgmt ignores workers in the trenches. Many of the fringe benefits--e.g. childcare subsidy; quality cafeteria/fitness centers--have been taken away completely or are of exceptionally poor quality. Work/life balance is constantly talked about, but not actually encouraged (i.e. ongoing layoffs have resulted in fewer people doing more work and, thus, working long hours, including many weekends).

Advice to Senior Management

Take more risks. Invest more in developing people--stop talking about it and actually DO it. And for heaven's sake, invest in IT. The future of the industry depends not just on R&D but also on being an innovative player technologically.

Pros

Great training. Years for low sales of company they still provided compensation through bonus

Cons

No feedback from managers. Never given anything to improve upon. Benefits ok

Pros

Great place to work, lots of projects to take part in. Management is respectful and professional to all employees, and the food is great (their own cafeteria)

Cons

Not much room for growth in this corporate ladder. People are great overall if you get to know them enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the great work!

Pros

Well respected in the medical and scientific community. Excellent dedication to doing the right thing to help patients recieve the medications they need even if it meant providing it for free if possible.
Very Committed to World Wide Health Care. especially in treatment and elimination of disease in the 3rd world communities....HIV AIDS, Hepatitis, Malaria, elephantisis etc. Agressive research and scientific commitment

Cons

Legal & regulatory had too much control over operations. Employee often found out company news or product concerns with the public. Like many large companies employees became more of a number than a colleague ...stress levels placed on all employees is extreemely high 10 on a 1-10

Advice to Senior Management

Take company control back from the legal and regulatory department. Give sales and marketing more ability to do what they do best for the products, providers and patients.

Pros

Great colleagues, working environment and work life balance.

Cons

Below the 50% percentile in terms of pay and bonuses.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to younger staff and have a compensation package that rewards performance and hard work instead of loyalty.

Pros

You'll find good people at Franklin Plaza in Philadelphia. Employees are ethical and strive to be fully compliant to FDA regulations. A strategic focus dominates business operations.

Cons

Strategically strong, culturally weak. Morale has been battered by external issues such as Avandia and by never-ending corporate restructuring. Building is an absolute dump.

Advice to Senior Management

You employees are the first customers you should focus on. Employees want this be a great, successful company, but it's painfully obvious that possibly except for Andrew, senior management is largely learning on the job.

Pros

good product and pipeline, excellent CEO

Cons

Poor carreer oportunities, poor middles managment

Advice to Senior Management

First line managment is great, Vp and above are great. They should lead the midletop managment toward the same level of leadership.

Pros

Great Benefits
Competent Employees
Management Communication in times of change is ok
Diverse work force
Great place for women to work

Cons

Unstable organization
Constant downsizing
Bias in favor of women!
IT thinks they are Microsoft or IBM

Advice to Senior Management

Find ways to reduce need to cut staff by reducing management salaries.

Pros

Great products and very customer focused

Cons

Extremely political organization. Many promotions and employee evalutions made on perception.
Those in head office spoke of a very negative working environment where others would do anything to get ahead of you.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to let an outside agent do a major overhaul of your talent review.
Concentrating your efforts on new MBA grad for leadership is very narrow minded. Your last ROB resutls were less than stellar yet for some reason you made top 50 again.