Great Company - Chemical Engineer Eli Lilly and Company Employee Review

Pay, benefits, facility and you feel like you’re making a difference

To be promoted is so convoluted and is about who you kiss up to.

Pay and benefits are the best in the area, probably the state. Other employees are friendly, and overall it's a very competent workforce.

Management. Leadership. Work-life balance. You will be constantly buried in a to do list that will never get shorter until you take a different job (by choice or by reorg) at which point you will still do significant amounts of your old job for 2-3 months. Reorgs here are almost always not headcount reductions, but they do involve a significant fraction (50% and up) of employees getting essentially laid off, with some period of time (3-4 months) to find a new job at Lilly. From what I can tell, every department is performing these every 2-2.5 years, some more often. Two in a year is rare, but does occur.