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    Gilead Sciences Reviews

    Updated November 15, 2018
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    Gilead Sciences President & CEO John Milligan
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    Pros

    • "Great benefits, great leadership, teamwork" (in 43 reviews)

    • "Good benefits; good culture; decent place to work for" (in 35 reviews)

    Cons

    • "can challenge work life balance" (in 117 reviews)

    • "No work life balance because of the heavy work load" (in 32 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (8)

      "Great company to work for"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Administrative Coordinator
      Current Employee - Administrative Coordinator
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great benefits, great leadership, teamwork

      Cons

      No plan to implement WFH Fridays

      Advice to Management

      WFH Fridays

    2. "Process Safety Intern"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      Bright people, great group communication

      Cons

      Seemed hard to progress through the ranks

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    3. "Clinical Program Manager"

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      Current Employee - Clinical Program Manager in Foster City, CA
      Current Employee - Clinical Program Manager in Foster City, CA

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Benefits, opportunity, challenge, growth, prioritization

      Cons

      Extremely lean, political, favoritism, work life balance is nonexistent

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Potential does not equal execution"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time

      Pros

      Well funded
      Great facilities to work in (modern)
      Competitive salaries
      Good benefits

      Cons

      Overly bureaucratic
      Too many levels to engage to get projects started
      Poor planning
      Firefighting mentality

      Advice to Management

      The business model would be more effectively executed if any planning were instituted. I have yet to see a 1,3,5 year plan at this company over the past 5 years

    5. "Machine Learning Research Intern"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      Good data sources in public health area

      Cons

      Not competitive salary compared to tech firms

    6. "statisticians"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time

      Pros

      interesting projects; fast learning; good coworkers

      Cons

      scope can be too broad; have to do many logistics work

    7. "Senior Financial Analyst II"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Gilead Sciences full-time

      Pros

      Fast paced, growing Company

      Cons

      Hard to rotate into new roles to promote growth

    8. "Specially Sales Representative"

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      Current Employee - TSR in Indianapolis, IN
      Current Employee - TSR in Indianapolis, IN
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      People and culture and money

      Cons

      No cons at this time

      Advice to Management

      Be fare and equal with all division

    9. "San Dimas Facility"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Gilead Sciences full-time

      Pros

      Great products, great mission, wonderful people.

      Cons

      Challenging environment and sometimes unrealistic expectations.

    10. "Senior Therapeutic Specialist"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time

      Pros

      History of research and development

      Cons

      Current instability with senior leadership

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