GSK reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(7,023 total reviews)
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Luke Miels

84% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

GSK has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 7,023 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GSK employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.7 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
Aug 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Have ideas for bringing good products to market , some for unmet needs of patients. Unfortunately their marketing department and contracting have no clue to current business environments. Ok benefits.

Cons

They are the biggest fraud in the Pharma industry. They purport their vision is all about being the most trusted pharma partner to health care professionals and patients. Bottom line they are strictly about profits, not patients. Deceptive marketing practices unchanged despite paying the Dept of Justice a 3 Billion dollar fine. Their recent downsizing of 2000 employees came after a 2 Billion dollar shortfall in revenue in lead brand Advair due to mistakes made by upper management, contracting and DC herself who was " forced to retire". Cut many senior employees with outstanding top 10% performance rankings and prolonged loyal service. These factors mean nothing to management and HR who were forced to maximize cost cutting. Spending the majority of my 30+ year career there was the worst mistake I have ever made.

1.0
Aug 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits - 401k and pension, good insurance plans.

Cons

Everything but the benefits. Basically only promotes minorities (the more UNqualified the better, it seems) bullying from some managers and HR does nothing. Not paid on performance. Extremely inconsistent and A LOT of busy work (depends on manager though)

3.0
Sep 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Satisfying work in clinical trials, ability to do some telecommuting allowing work-life intergration and decent benefits for medical/dental and timeoff.

Cons

Disconnected senior management, disconnect between company philosophy and culture and behavior of senior mangement, especially with regard to ethics and oncology staff was instrumential in the success of several treatments only to have senior executives decide they could capitialize on their employees' sweat equity to swap assets with Novaritis for approx $16 billion dollars. The senior management and some middle managers at GSK are quite cut-throat, don't look out at all for their employees, can't understand why telecommuting would make the company more competitive and cut-costs without severe adverse effects on staff and micro-manage. Lack of meaningful career advancement due to changes in job grades and the old girl and old boy networks. If you are not part of the Queen Bee hive, you are likely to languish in your current position. With the current turbulence at GSK, I suggest folks take a pass until the dust settles sometime in 2015. If you care about ethics at a company, I'd take a pass on GSK for the time being.

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