GSK reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(10,649 total reviews)
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Luke Miels

85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

GSK has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 10,649 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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11K reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2013

Working at GSK is like jumping into a shark tank.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I cannot think of any.

Cons

Deceptive management, made my position redundant in order to employ the clinical director's wife whose position was being eliminated by the creation of a new company. I have since found out that the company's redundancy method was *illegal*, offering me no opportunities for redeployment. GSK is a company bereft of ethics, and I would not hesitate to recommend a friend or colleague to avoid them like the plague.

1.0
Jan 18, 2025
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Pros

Some colleagues are supportive amidst the chaos.

Cons

Excessive Workload and No Work-Life Balance: • Weekdays are spent rushing between meetings and preparing endless reports. • Daily overtime is unavoidable, yet the work doesn’t end there. Employees are expected to remain on standby for late-night calls and messages as manufacturing runs 24/7. This expectation extends to weekends, leaving no personal time. Dysfunctional Quality Department: • The quality team lacks manufacturing knowledge and unnecessarily escalates issues to higher-level reports, even when there is no product impact. • They often ask irrelevant or unanswerable questions. • Despite clear flaws in their quality system, they refuse to acknowledge or improve upon its challenges, creating inefficiencies and frustration. Ineffectual Safety Department and Hollow Promises: • The safety team proposes improvement initiatives without consulting relevant stakeholders or planning execution, then presents unrealistic deadlines to management. • Responsibility for execution is dumped on engineers from other departments, while the safety team avoids accountability by claiming they lack process and equipment training. • They portray themselves as approachable but fail to support employees in project planning and execution. It’s common knowledge that the safety team avoids overtime and contributes little in terms of actionable results. Some officers even have enough free time to teach outside the company. • The safety team positions itself as approachable and ready to help with safety projects, but when approached, they claim they lack process and equipment knowledge to assist. If they are untrained, why are they proposing improvements without consulting experts in the first place? • Their initiatives are poorly planned, lack stakeholder input, and often push execution responsibilities onto engineers from other departments. • They avoid accountability and overtime, with some officers even finding time to pursue external teaching roles. Misleading “Great Place to Work” Recognition: • The company flaunts its workplace awards, but the evaluation process is questionable, as many employees, including myself, were never even consulted.

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GSK Response
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Thanks for telling us about your experience – we take your feedback very seriously. We can only achieve our purpose and get ahead of disease together if everyone feels they have the opportunity to thrive.
1.0
Jul 11, 2024
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Pros

My coworkers were a genuine delight, hardworking and supportive

Cons

My manager was routinely discriminatory to me, made my health condition worse and leaked personal information to others without my consent. Since becoming disabled during my employment how i was treated was completely changed, with disciplinary and improvement plans threatened. Their show of equality and diversity is only a show. No chance of promotion or pay raise.

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GSK Response
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Thank you for taking the time to tell us about your experience – your feedback is very important to us. We want GSK to be a place where everyone can be themselves, and where diversity is embraced and celebrated. We would like to know more about your concerns so we can investigate further. Please contact us via our Speak Up channel https://gsk.i-sight.com/landing-page/
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