Everything is an 'emergency' all the time as their is chronic understaffing especially in pharmacovigilance. Too many company 'group' emails, most of which do not pertain to one's function, but must be triaged anyway, in case...time waster.
Noble mission, but below director level they treat their employees quite poorly, managers manage poorly, and they hope you will stay due to their 'golden handcuffs' despite continuing to make no effort to improve the situation. As the company has grown (too fast, and poorly- they should get their money back from whichever consultant told them to do it this way), those handcuffs have become much less shiny.
Gilead prohibits or frowns upon working from home, even for areas for which it would make no difference. They have old software and the recent upgrade was already 4 years behind when they put it in place.
While turnover is typical of the industry, Gilead has excessive turnover below the Director level. People just choose not to take it anymore, even if it means losing money to go somewhere else. That is a testament to the working conditions at this time.
Gilead is a 'lean' company, and proud of it. The problem is that it is now too lean and experienced employees are looking elsewhere. They claim to want to be more diverse and welcome new ideas but they actually begin a targeted brainwashing process that basically says there is a wrong way, a right way and the Gilead way. They are so sure that the Gilead way is correct that they are not at all truly interested in change. Gilead is not really interested in what their employees have to say, despite the fact that they give a lot of lip service saying that they do, set up 'task forces' and committees, have big presentations about the results, and then really DO nothing different. Gilead: We have a problem...
