How are career development opportunities at Eli Lilly and Company?

Good environment good options on departments

Lack of transparency, no proper leadership support, career growth is very slim and poor company HR management and other supportive departments, do not value the efforts and contributions.

Great culture, fantastic career growth opportunities, and strong work life balance

Hierarchical structures may sometimes limit level of influence with senior leaders

Good pay and great benefits and provide career development opportunities

Management can sometimes be non sympathetic and you feel like a number. Also if you have a disability don’t expect to get the help you need or good accommodations . Eli Lilly has an extremely long way to go to provide an inclusive environment for individual with disability. I was made to feel like I have to mold to what they want instead of receiving the help I need. I seems that help is more available only to those with visible disabilities but not those with an invisible disability.

Good work life balance, really good team, great career growth opportunities available frequently

Work can be a little redundant

Great career development opportunity, nice culture and colleague

Need more focus, weak internal developmebt

Super approachable senior staff, lots of opportunities for growth and overall great environment and work life balance.

Indianapolis is a bit boring if that matters to you..

Great culture, lots of opportunities for learning, great people

Can be very busy from time to time. Hybrid option not available

Good benefits but not good pay, most people are underpaid

They are all about work life balance but it’s impossible with the amount of work they put on you. Great growth opportunities but management will stop you from moving ahead if it means it benefits your team.

The salary and benefits might be good. Many career advancement opportunities are available if you work hard and are motivated. Diversity and inclusion are great.

New employees training is the worst I have ever seen. Your first days will be you having meetings with some random employee who desperately wants to leave their job and will try to cut the meetings short and give you some meaningless stuff to read. Then you'll be thrown into a role which you know nothing about, and you'll have to deal with very close due dates, you'll find out that the person you are replacing has done nothing during their time there and you'll have to finish a 3-month long task in just a month. Since this is almost impossible, you'll try to ask for help or delegate some of the work you are given, but "I don't know how to do it", "Ask someone else, this is not my responsibility", "Why can't you do it alone?!" and "Are you serious?!" will be the only answers you receive. You might eventually find some people willing to help you, but you'll find out later that they just pretended to know what they had to do, they lied, or they just didn't listen to you, and you'll find out that their work was terrible, and you'll have to redo everything from the start. Support is terrible. If you encounter some issues and ask the help desk for support, your support case will be lost along many support assistants around the world, who work part time and with low salary who have zero commitment in getting your issues resolved. They hire employee randomly. At the interview you are not asked about your experience, they just check if you are fluent enough in the required languages and "what is your dream". Since they don't care about your experience or your career goals (at least not when you join), once you'll be hired you'll become cannon fodder. You'll be given tasks that you're not capable to do, because you have absolutely no experience for it, but the job clearly required some experience in the field. You'll be harassed by your superiors, who'll make fun of you or blame every failure on you, even when it's their fault. The cherry on top of all of this is that there are sometimes some seminars for "stress management", where they try to convince you that stress is normal, and you should embrace it because it will improve your performance. They even say things like "Hey! At least you're not a soldier. You don't live in a country at war. That is stressful, this is nothing". While every day there are employees quitting their jobs in tears or with some serious mental issues clearly caused by stress.

Great culture and development opportunities

Slow to promote, many layers of governance