GSK reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(10,650 total reviews)
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85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

GSK has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 10,650 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
4.0
Jan 25, 2009
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Pros

Innovation, career opportinities within the company, sense of purpose, pride in products, working with very smart and passionate people, compensation and benefit package is hard to beat.

Cons

Current economic climate and change in leadership resulting in many reoganizations, job insecurity. The comapany is so large that there are many bureaucratic processes and effective communication is difficult. Culture does not reward honesty and open communication. Maintaining 2 US headquarters and dual leadership in many areas did not allow the creation of a single corporate culture in the US.

4.0
Jan 14, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

GSK has excellent training for new employees, training is intense and you must be prepared to leave home for minimum 3 weeks. GSK has good products, benefits, budgets, marketing materials, company cars, cell phone, credit card, computer, printer, expense account for supplies for your office and other materials.

Cons

Manage Care is having a big impact in Michigan and some other states. Physician's may like your products/drugs but if the insurance company will not pay for it, he can't use it with his patients and you will lose market share. Many of GSK best products have generic competition or in the case of Avandia (for diabetes), received some bad media coverage which cost the company billions of dollars. In the last 2 years the company has cut jobs 2 times. Rumors are out already they may have another round of cuts, year end 2009. It's not just GSK making cuts, it's the industry as a whole.

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