Gilead Sciences Reviews

Pros

Usual: Complimentary parking everywhere. Large campus. Lake in the middle of campus. Good subsidized food, especially the salad bar. Great people to work with. 401k match. Espp up to 15% salary. Offices for managers or higher levels. Gym nearby, on campus for FTEs. Shuttles to SF, East Bay, and South Bay (new so still working it kinks). Good training and learning opportunities depending on level. Business class travel for international business trips. Depending on Dept, can show appreciation for one another via value at works awards or Gilead thanks which is great.

Overall great place to work and build your network, your skill sets, and opportunity to work in and learn to excel in a matrixed environment. Compared to a start up, great hours! Compared to start up, great place to make mistakes (or to practice things by trial and error) and learn from them. Being a fast learner is appreciated here and how one excels. Being able to navigate through the mean girls and narcissists and talkers is a good skill to learn too, and how one excels. Gilead is open about this: people hang out and chat with one another with ulterior motives; you might scratch their back later if they scratch yours. Side conversations are where all the real stuff happens.

Good place to work for 3-5 years. I appreciate the opportunity to experience so much professionally in such a short amount of time. I'd rather learn here than somewhere else! Mostly friendly culture which makes it easier.

Advice to Management

HR, Educate everyone on what their roles are. Build incentives structure for compassion and kindness in team dynamic. Get better newer software please. Dying here. Address hierarchical problems by getting senior leadership to be more approachable or compassionate. Show you value efficient approach re: people to people problems, not just the business metrics. They're interrelated! People are all human but somehow there's a tendency for people to get treated as lesser than. If they don't feel good, you think they're going to go that extra step just 'cause? Treat compassion to project leads and MDs. Give coaching to managers on how to see someone's strengths and utilize them fully.

Pros

Employee favors or benefits are prolific.

Advice to Management

Not so heavy handed on employees and security dept.

Pros

Smart, Hard-Working Dedicated Team!

Pros

You will learn a lot as the amount of work load is heavy.

Advice to Management

Please show respect to everybody.

Pros

Work with great people who are passionate about what they do and willing to put in the time to get things done correctly. Great core values on paper. Great pay and benefits.

Advice to Management

Value your employees. Although people are expendable they shouldn't feel like they are.

Pros

Small teams, big responsibility, lean, big impact on the world, Directors and below are competent; vps and above need to be more data and reality driven

Pros

Great company to work for overall

Advice to Management

Loosen up a bit,

Pros

- Strong Senior Management Team
- Decisions are based on the science or data
- No non-sense culture when it comes to execution and performance management
- Lean operating model, get to wear many hats and build new skill sets

Advice to Management

- Continue communicating the future direction and strategy of the company

Pros

Excellent work life balance, corporate culture and campus.

Advice to Management

Pay better salary for mid level to make it easier for people to afford to stay and grow their Careers's here.

Pros

The learning is phenomenal because you do everything yourself - no vendor to assist. Also, you have multiple concurrent projects so there is no time to waste and no time to be bored. Your skills expand rapidly and your industry knowledge reach great heights in a very short period of time.

Advice to Management

1. Value and nurture your greatest asset - the employee. We work days and nights and weekends to ensure we deliver Gilead's promise to the patient. We are the worker bees who execute quickly and the results are flawless. Don't be frugal with the promotion, increase in pay, and stock rewards. In the grand scheme of things, these things are pocket change compare to Gilead's profits. 2. Promote a culture that values different perspectives. 3. People who are senior directors and above should take the time to develop people who are below them. We can do the same job over and over and do it extremely well and efficient, but it doesn't mean that we are happy. A person's growth at work has more to do with new projects, new challenges and gained knowledge and skills. This is how you engage people, especially those who are high performers.