What is the hiring process like at GSK?

The pros at this company meet the standard

The recruitment process was not professional

Some colleagues are supportive amidst the chaos.

Excessive Workload and No Work-Life Balance: • Weekdays are spent rushing between meetings and preparing endless reports. • Daily overtime is unavoidable, yet the work doesn’t end there. Employees are expected to remain on standby for late-night calls and messages as manufacturing runs 24/7. This expectation extends to weekends, leaving no personal time. Dysfunctional Quality Department: • The quality team lacks manufacturing knowledge and unnecessarily escalates issues to higher-level reports, even when there is no product impact. • They often ask irrelevant or unanswerable questions. • Despite clear flaws in their quality system, they refuse to acknowledge or improve upon its challenges, creating inefficiencies and frustration. Ineffectual Safety Department and Hollow Promises: • The safety team proposes improvement initiatives without consulting relevant stakeholders or planning execution, then presents unrealistic deadlines to management. • Responsibility for execution is dumped on engineers from other departments, while the safety team avoids accountability by claiming they lack process and equipment training. • They portray themselves as approachable but fail to support employees in project planning and execution. It’s common knowledge that the safety team avoids overtime and contributes little in terms of actionable results. Some officers even have enough free time to teach outside the company. • The safety team positions itself as approachable and ready to help with safety projects, but when approached, they claim they lack process and equipment knowledge to assist. If they are untrained, why are they proposing improvements without consulting experts in the first place? • Their initiatives are poorly planned, lack stakeholder input, and often push execution responsibilities onto engineers from other departments. • They avoid accountability and overtime, with some officers even finding time to pursue external teaching roles. Misleading “Great Place to Work” Recognition: • The company flaunts its workplace awards, but the evaluation process is questionable, as many employees, including myself, were never even consulted.

Patient focused Lots of opportunities

1) Lots of restructuring constantly 2) They want and push people to move roles -regularly! but hiring managers require you to have done 99% of the new job, so many people are not progressing/developing new skills as quickly as you would like to. 3) But then oddly GSK has a biased preference for generalists rather than specialists in order to climb the ladder. 4) If you don’t have ‘oncology experience’ even if you have decades of pharma experience and a science degree you are NOT getting into the trusted oncology circle. Which only exacerbates issue #2

Competitive salary and benefits package with a global workforce.

Challenging and time consuming process to being promoted

Good pay and bonus Challenging projects International environment Good salary and interesting tech, but it’s all tangled in endless bureaucracy. You’ll burn hours explaining why you need to do your job instead of actually doing it. Lately, leadership’s obsession with “strategic resourcing” (moving everything to the cheapest bidder and outsourcing) has destroyed team morale and quality. Skill and experience matter less than fitting a spreadsheet narrative. It’s a paycheck with prestige, not a place to grow or be heard.

Poor culture Constant reorgs Bureaucracy Do the minimum mentality Heavy recruitment process

College is the best. Team-player

Interview process take a couple months

Great Life and Meeting filled days if you are someone's relative , protege or friend out of US and zero accountability

Talent in new tech is altime low , impetus on retaining status quo rather than knowledge or outcomes . High micromanagement if you are not a relative , protege or friend of friend. Wonderful culture documents and intention .

It's the brand name honestly

The Recruitment Manager was a big micro manager Toxic environment and insecurity showed by the line manager was extremely unprofessional. Cornering me and intimidating me was the worst thing that she could do. The Management needs to look into this before hiring such unprofessional people Had a very bad experience

Good International exposure and opportunity to move around into different roles

I was treated absolutely horribly through an HR process at the end of my time there and ultimately decided to leave. They use the typical line that everything is being done equitably but everyone knows that it is not. I even made a complaint to HR and ultimately nothing was done. I decided to leave the company after that and it was the best decision I ever made. They really don’t treat their people well when it comes to HR processes.

Benefits, transparency, values, patient focus, do the right thing

hierarchy, complex processes in the day by day