Gilead Sciences Reviews

Pros

I must acknowledge that the interview process with Gilead Sciences was the best that I have experienced thus far in my career.

Cons

No cons to share at this time.

Pros

Gilead allows eager, motivated, proactive and resourceful individuals the opportunities to grow and develop their own careers. There is never a lack of opportunity to take on more and truly learn and grow. Amazing pay and benefits. Multi layered benefits for health and wellbeing and other fringe benefits. Mission driven company with a lot of purpose. Taking the time to understand how we work, why certain things work the way they, and what we give back makes working for Gilead feel really good. You truly feel like you're contributing to our mission every day. Smart, driven talent you can learn a lot from

Cons

If you're passionate about your work, you'll find yourself working a lot of hours. The tools and resources needed to get impactful work done quickly are not always there and so man hours are needed.

Pros

Overall company reputation, compensation, benefits are good in comparison to many other BioTech companies in the Bay Area. Lots of recent investments in employee wellness and increased benefits programs. Commuter bus program, flexible schedule options. May get opportunities for growth if in the right department.

Cons

The leadership within many departments is just incompetent. I would call them fake news. They seem to just care to get themselves ahead. A lot of leaders care about managing upwards and pleasing their bosses even if they may be wrong or just immature. Many leaders just talk and can walk the talk. Many are good at just putting together good presentations but actually fail in implementing the change or operationalize the strategy laid out. In most cases, the leadership is hypocritical in their own behavior and just looks at short-term goals. All major departments operate in silos and just are clueless about what is going on with other departments even if they may be dependent on each other. Leaders need to instill a culture of inclusivity and trust among departments. Many of our departments in our organization operate for individual department success and not the success of Gilead as a whole.

Pros

People, mission, compensation/benefits, putting patients at center

Cons

New leaders have come in, and while change is needed for Gilead to continue to grow and diversify out of virology, it should keep the best of what got it here. New leaders have not endeared themselves to the company employees--I recognize the pandemic has contributed to this--but efforts have been slow and they are largely silent and unseen. They have also help create an "old vs new" by creating a very top-heavy structure of VPs and SVPs, almost all from GNE or similar, and indicating that the talent here isn't ready for these roles. Meanwhile, those who have been here through the successes, are at ED level and looking at glass ceilings but expected to break backs to get things done and lead large teams. These leaders came from other big companies but were not the reasons those companies succeeded, and many of them were Senior Directors or ED at other companies and got VP level jobs here. No one knows what they do. Portfolio decisions are not made, but rather nickel and dime and grind teams to death, avoiding to make decisions.

Pros

Amazing benefits Good work life balance but that depends on which group you are in. Lots of learning opportunities to learn technical skills and enhance interpersonal skills. They are focusing more on individual career development and growth.

Cons

Promotion process is very slow and may seem unfair in certain cases. Everyone has to wear multiple hats for helping and supporting processes. Recently leadership has been over reaching wrt monitoring what employees are doing day to day as most of us are still working from home.

Pros

Among the top tier in compensation; good benefits; Diversity is inclusive of LGBTQA community, and new goals around furthering diversity and inclusion for BIPOC community (still work to be done). New leadership in last two years seems to be moving in the right direction. Drugs are impactful for patients. Strong ERGs. Highly supportive of employees throughout the pandemic. Opportunity to be impactful during the growth stage.

Cons

There are still silos that need to be broken down. Micromanagement/ decision making not delegated correctly are issues. Current processes are lacking and there is duplicative work and inefficiencies. Company is in the process of growing to the next level - which is both good and difficult. Love that it is growing - it needs to - but am sometimes frustrated that it hasn't already grown and/or that some of the people who have been around for a long time don't see the need for change.