Gilead likes to tout itself as being an "innovative" company, yet the culture within is highly resistant to change - Anonymous employee Gilead Sciences Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-a badge of honor you can put on your resume

Cons

-anytime a change is proposed, it is met with resistance "that's not how we've done it before" -people who are more visible, and perceived to be adding value are promoted. yet the people who are actually adding value are not -for a company that claims to be lean, an awful lot of time and resources are wasted to correct projects that were unnecessarily rushed with arbitrary deadlines. (you didn't have time to do it right the first time, but you have time to fix the mess because you met the deadline?) -there's a lot of tribal knowledge, which is unfortunate with the high turn over rate

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Cons

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