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John Milligan
103 Ratings
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Great benefits, great leadership, teamwork (in 42 reviews)
Great team of people to work with, good benefits, good work-life balance (in 31 reviews)
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Work-life balance is a struggle (in 109 reviews)
No work life balance because of the heavy work load (in 29 reviews)
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"Great company to work for"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 5 years)
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Great benefits, great leadership, teamwork
Cons
No plan to implement WFH Fridays
Advice to Management
WFH Fridays
Gilead Sciences 2018-01-09 10:23 PST Helpful (1)
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"Therapeutic Specialist"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 5 years)
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.
Cons
As the company grew, the culture suffered in all of the typical/cliche ways. But, to be fair, has any company ever been able to actually avoid this?
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.
Gilead Sciences 2018-03-26 03:34 PDT![Gilead Sciences Logo]()
"REVIEW"
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I worked at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Challenging, team environment, interaction with many functional areas
Cons
Promotion priority given to men
Gilead Sciences 2018-04-16 05:51 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Great Company - Poor management"
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Negative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Gilead is definitively best in class biotech for the quality of the Research and TAs. Very high level staff in every dpt
Extremely IT driven with fast working pace
Attractive Comp&BenCons
The system is spoiled by very low level HR people - among the worst I faced in my career
They are not able to identify abusers, and treat them as such.
A strong improvement is needed hereGilead Sciences 2018-04-12 02:43 PDT![Gilead Sciences Logo]()
"Good company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great benefit, teamwork, great coworkers, diversity, inclusion
Cons
Inefficiency in workflow/decision making causes extra work and lost of edge in market
Advice to Management
Make decision-making process more efficient
Gilead Sciences 2018-04-02 22:32 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Horrible place to work and worst managers ever!"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (Less than a year)
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I can honestly say there are other big Pharma s out there that great employees better than Gilead. Maybe when the stock was good but now it’s stuck in the $70’s for over 2 years, people came and stayed. I can’t imagine people wanting to stay for the stock now.
Cons
Management are full of micro managers, constantly shuffled from divisions to other divisions without experience or contacts. Hiring from outside would be better but Gilead protects its own. Way overrated and salespeople are arrogant as hell. Presidents club is based on history of territory and nothing to do with success of Rep. I can’t say anyone in my division is happy, just too lazy to get out. When managers can get away with unethical behavior because they’re protected based on who the know, it brings morale down. I knew it was bad but couldn’t imagine it to be this bad 😡
Advice to Management
Stop playing politics! Hire best people for job even from outside and stop with the cronyism, Invest in good people coming in from outside instead of always pushing the same internal rah rahs who know how to play the game
Gilead Sciences 2018-04-13 08:48 PDT![Gilead Sciences Logo]()
"Growing Company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time
Pros
Exciting Business Growth that are different from other healthcare companies
Cons
Extremely hardworking
Very US-centered companyAdvice to Management
Being more inclusive for other parts of worlds beside U.S.
Gilead Sciences 2018-04-12 13:27 PDT![Gilead Sciences Logo]()
"Opportunity in Bay Area"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gilead Sciences full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Fast paced, good salaries, self motivation and a science based company. Company has very intelligent people who are experts in their areas.
Cons
Frustrating IT area, does not have it together. People work long hours and are expected to make deadlines.
Gilead Sciences 2018-03-25 19:51 PDTHelpful (5)
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"Beware of toxic and unqualified managers/HR policies (or lack of) that are coddled and protected at your expense."
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Great medical advances.
Good 401k match (10k). Good benefits in general & 3 weeks vacation, but I’m not sure they’re any better than those at any other big company. One paid day of community service per year. Good community service opportunities. Very good soup/salad bars. Some very smart and kind co-workers and at least one good manager (but I think that’s true at most companies). Beautiful location and nice gym.
I had one great manager. Too bad they reorged (for no good reason) and just introduced chaos and turnover into a system that was working fine before the reorg.Cons
No salary or perk can compensate for a manager that treats you like you’re a expendable piece of crap. And HR doesn’t have an effective policy in place to handle managers that go haywire (outside of blaming the employee, creating the retention issue that Gilead is becoming/is already famous for).
Too many remote managers, which doesn’t help bridge possible communication gaps. Can't they at least require teleconferences or require remote managers to travel to the Foster City site (or are they too precious for that?)?
No clear progression of "disciplinary actions" so a manager can fire or manage you out on a whim (like his/her marriage is on the rocks or he/she's on a power trip). I find that when managers feel they can get away with anything (especially bc they somehow managed to stay at Gilead 5+ years), smug, arrogant, and complacent behavior can develop.Advice to Management
PLEASE ONLY HIRE MANAGERS WHO RATE HIGH ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
Don't assume that a good scientist/statistician is a good manager. If they have terrible communication skills and fear/hate people, they can't compensate for that by having 3 PhDs or whatever else.
Don't allow management to dump criticism/ambush employees in a year-end performance review when REASONABLE demands haven't been clearly voiced and documented before. There shouldn't really be any surprises at those year-end reviews. Those "surprises" are the ultimate in passive-aggression and are the hallmarks of an insecure and vastly underqualified manager/HR department (with perhaps also demonstrate a sadistic streak).
It's ridiculous that I know some people have been contractors for 3+ years without being offered perm employment.
Don't reorg just to make it look like you're doing something.Gilead Sciences 2018-03-28 16:26 PDT![Gilead Sciences Logo]()
"Therapeutic Specialist"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Gilead Sciences full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Great benefits, Great science, very good training, good team environment
Cons
a lot of focus on number of calls per day
Gilead Sciences 2018-03-11 20:23 PDT
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