Abusive and harrassing behavior tolerated by US affiliate - IT Worker Eli Lilly and Company Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Lilly for several years but recently decided that I needed to inform others of the inner workings of how abusive and harrassing behavior is swept under the rug to keep projects on track.

Cons

I was a direct witness to a campaign of retaliation and harrassment that was ignored by senior management. A manager was extremely hostile to their staff members and eventually received an HR complaint. These complaints are confidential - however this manager shared the complaint with their staff in an effort to identify the individual that submitted it. Their staff then began to "investigate" the matter and started harrassing likely suspects. This culmulated in an off-campus encounter where a Jewish employee was targeted with anti-semetic language and had a drink poured on them - with a threat of "we know what you did and we're watching you." This event was widely known to management, but no action was taking because the manager was in a critical project role.

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5.0
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Pros

Pay, benefits, facility and you feel like you’re making a difference

Cons

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3.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

Pay and benefits are the best in the area, probably the state. Other employees are friendly, and overall it's a very competent workforce.

Cons

Management. Leadership. Work-life balance. You will be constantly buried in a to do list that will never get shorter until you take a different job (by choice or by reorg) at which point you will still do significant amounts of your old job for 2-3 months. Reorgs here are almost always not headcount reductions, but they do involve a significant fraction (50% and up) of employees getting essentially laid off, with some period of time (3-4 months) to find a new job at Lilly. From what I can tell, every department is performing these every 2-2.5 years, some more often. Two in a year is rare, but does occur.

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