GSK reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(7,043 total reviews)
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82% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

GSK has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,043 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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2.0
Mar 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. Money is decent.

Cons

Company values are laudable. They want to be the most trusted pharmaceutical company in the industry. However they have created a toxic culture. Sales people are paid on how well they score on tests and other metics, such as the number of doctors they call on, the percentage of samples they give out and the number of targeted providers they get to programs/meetings. The whole field is cheating because they are scared. They routinely pass around tests; lying (inflating) the number calls made; getting doctors to sign for samples and throwing them away and running telecons that no one listens to. Reps are also subjectively rated by managers. They say the rating scale is not subjective, but it most certainly is. Integrity, honesty & respect, three of the GSK's pillars have never been so compromised. Cheating is happening. Senior management knows it. The just "turn a blind eye" to it.

2.0
Mar 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Exposure Able to work on projects with big impact and lots of spend Some lovely people work there

Cons

Top down heirachy, where there is no transparency Too much work for too little people- people are stressed and overworked and it shows People don't care about the company they work for. very Corporate Atmosphere, they don't seem to care about the people in the business.

4.0
Mar 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Glaxo Smith Kline provided an excellent day to day training ground for on going advanced Sales techniques, public presentations and territory management.

Cons

The challenges of a forever changing Medical and Managed Care controlled market provided serious challenges and roadblocks to supporting the field sales force.

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