Gilead Sciences Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, great leadership, teamwork

Advice to Management

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Pros

Arguably the most successful U.S. drug company... ever. Generous equity stake & overall compensation. Truly game-changing patient treatment options for multiple disease states. Launching the first-ever QD HIV regimen was a uniquely exciting & rewarding experience.

Advice to Management

Find ways to create more autonomy for top-tier salesperson talent. Everyone understands the current level of regulatory scrutiny and the consequences of non-compliance. Current "micro-management" focused on this issue passed the level of drastically diminishing returns long ago. Elite and seasoned reps need more opportunities to problem-solve "outside the box" in order to deliver elite & seasoned rep results. The best way to limit regulatory non-compliance liability is with severe & decisive discipline that makes no exceptions. But trust first within reason.

Pros

Belief in its vision and mission and core values is real and pervasive. Employees are empowered to be creative and bold when problem solving.

Advice to Management

Increase our salaries. Each employee accounts for more revenue (total revenue/total employees) than any other biopharmaceutical company with at least 5k employees. Yet we are paid salaries closer to the median.

Pros

Overall you will learn a lot at Gilead because it’s very lean as compared to big pharma. Big pharma you are limited to you JD with little room for flexibility unless it’s part of your professional development. Gilead allows you to work hard and engage with multiple projects

Advice to Management

Please when a new Head of Commercial starts please realize you need to reorganize the company for it to thrive for the next few years and really assess are the VPs you currently have are going to help you succeed or harm the company because of their own selfish reasons

Pros

Large variety of projects, potential exposure to different programs and therapeutic areas, interaction with talented and competent subject matter experts. Good salary and excellent benefits.

Advice to Management

Delegate and trust your staff, especially those who have been at the company for at least tow or three years. Stop thinking according to the "Gilead-way". Don't expect high productivity by adding workload.

Pros

The company has overall good values and focus on science. The salary and benefits seem competitive for similar jobs in the area.

Advice to Management

Strongly enforce work-life balance and reduce employee workload, otherwise, the turnover will continue. Upgrade technology and allow Mac's, otherwise, the most creative people will leave. Encourage mistakes and risk-taking, otherwise, creativity will stifle.

Pros

Stock program, highly competitive, good people, good opportunity for growth

Advice to Management

More realistic goals and tone down pressure

Pros

Company stability, Interesting Science, Stock options

Advice to Management

Allow more flexibility with your employees
Work life balance philosophy needs improving

Pros

R&D is pretty cool. Lifesaving medications being developed. Because they don't typically invent it, they buy it, but nonetheless they are saving lives. Has the potential to be a cool company.

Advice to Management

Better train your people managers to manage people. Create an actual training program that is mandatory. Help people better adjust to the culture.

Pros

Excellent compensation, benefits, and stability.