GlaxoSmithKline Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Strong products, very strong quality processes, not a friendly employee focus environment, not dynamic, not innovative, great ambition but difficult to achieve. Everything to make a great change will require at least 5-10 years, to long to react to competitors and watch strategy live."

"I have worked at GSK since 2001 and have thoroughly enjoyed every year."

"The company is currently focusing efforts to transform itself to flexible sourcing for providing all of the IT needs. Not sure how this will work out but I do wish them the best."

"The company is undergoing rapid change and can be an exciting environment on the cutting edge. Being a large company however there are often discrepancies where some areas are not held to as high a standard or resourced as well."

"Gsk is a strong company specialized in pharmaceutical research."

"This is a good company if you have zero positions of experience in your CV. Gives the impression how work in big place looks like. Hard to become a perm worker, hard to get promotion, but if you achieve it remember - grade change does not mean better salary (it could be even worse). Impossible to have external training (constant budget cuts), impossible to travel - no one can go."

What do you like about working at GlaxoSmithKline?

"I like the location, vacation, bonus, and that there are enough resources. There is not too much emphasis on face time."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be ready to give convincing examples on how you dealt with various past situations successfully."

What don't you like about working at GlaxoSmithKline?

"I don't like too much management. The emphasis is on project management and not quality of work. More and more projects are outsourced. There is a lack of significant new products. They are layoff-happy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep better care of technical experts you have. They will give you new products, not project manager or outsourcing technical work."

What do you like about working at GlaxoSmithKline?

"I like the great people."

What don't you like about working at GlaxoSmithKline?

"It feels very corporate-like."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be better leaders."

"Incredibly weak leadership, VERY political, personality driven environment. How/who gets promoted is mysterious and based on connections, rather than capability or skill set. If you do not enjoy a&&-kissing, probably not a good choice for you. Company has an extremely disposable attitude toward employees - downsizings are frequent and brutal. Higher level - VP, etc positions are sweet, if you can get them but very hard to do, if you are not a subject of the crown."