What is Eli Lilly company culture like?

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What a loaded question.

In the US - in Indiana in particular, culture is flourishing about as well as that tribe in the Amazon recently discovered.... just leave it alone and hopefully it doesn't disappear too quickly.
 




I would say that it's intensely competitive in private, and excessively "friendly" in public.

Get into a one on one with your manager, and questions will arise, like "what do you think of ...?" and if you don't say something negative, you get a frown. They truly want dirt on people, even if it has to be fabricated.

No, not my Lilly... right.
 








Anonymous said:
I really don't know exactly how to tell you this, but you guys are whining because you are on the bottom rung of a ladder that you are new to, and that those of us already here, are here becasue we have been focused, trained on and educated for since before we went to our private high school. This crap about ass-kissing and suck-ups is only nonsense to you because you are foreign to it; it is new to you in the business world. What you midgets don't understand is that this IS the business world, and that's how it works. Some of us have recognized this for 20 or 30 years, and that's why we are successful and at (or near) the top, with stock benefits and deferred compensation, buyouts and contracts, while you are whining about company car costs and cell phone bills.
You have no concept of what goes on at the senior or even the middle management level; the decisions that we make are based on information and trending that you have no clue about and have never even heard of. It is pathetic that you even think you can make a relevant comment about how we manage the company.
My suggestion to you is that you stick to your sales aid, stay on-label, follow the call plan and STFU about things you have no idea of. There is no career path from where you are, so deal with it and move on.
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Figure this out -- if you have a brain!
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Anonymous said:
I really don't know exactly how to tell you this, but you guys are whining because you are on the bottom rung of a ladder that you are new to, and that those of us already here, are here becasue we have been focused, trained on and educated for since before we went to our private high school. This crap about ass-kissing and suck-ups is only nonsense to you because you are foreign to it; it is new to you in the business world. What you midgets don't understand is that this IS the business world, and that's how it works. Some of us have recognized this for 20 or 30 years, and that's why we are successful and at (or near) the top, with stock benefits and deferred compensation, buyouts and contracts, while you are whining about company car costs and cell phone bills.
You have no concept of what goes on at the senior or even the middle management level; the decisions that we make are based on information and trending that you have no clue about and have never even heard of. It is pathetic that you even think you can make a relevant comment about how we manage the company.
My suggestion to you is that you stick to your sales aid, stay on-label, follow the call plan and STFU about things you have no idea of. There is no career path from where you are, so deal with it and move on.
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This post, is exactly what is wrong w/Lilly. The corporate elite who who look down at reps who are all morons obviously, have NO concept what our customers & patients need. Original poster, you should be proud, you're doing such a fine job up there making these important decisions that we know nothing of. Keep up the good work leading this ship to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Did you have a Black belt team help you answer the security question to make your post?
 








if you are under 40, small minded, don't mind working as an FDE..can be molded just the way lilly wants you to be without questioning some of their idiotic marketing strategies, you might survive the two years theyve said theyll give you. Oh yes, and you must be ok working for an even smaller minded manager that has risen to power just as the peter principle discribes, and then following his stupidity without questioning.
 




Anonymous said:
As a former FDE I have enormous contempt for this company. I hope the Chinese buy it, and dismantle it.
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Need to hear more about your FDE experience. I just took an FDE job and I am starting to freak out that I may be unemployed in 2 years. Although they are promising me that this is :long term... If I end up unemployed, then I just hurt my family...big time....
 




Anonymous said:
Need to hear more about your FDE experience. I just took an FDE job and I am starting to freak out that I may be unemployed in 2 years. Although they are promising me that this is :long term... If I end up unemployed, then I just hurt my family...big time....
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No one gets kept past their fixed duration. Lucky in fact if you make it that far. For your own good, find a weekly or at most, a monthly rental. There have been many FDEs who signed up for year-long leases and got screwed, beware!
 




Anonymous said:
Need to hear more about your FDE experience. I just took an FDE job and I am starting to freak out that I may be unemployed in 2 years. Although they are promising me that this is :long term... If I end up unemployed, then I just hurt my family...big time....
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Dude, you took a fixed duration job and will be surprised to end up unemployed? I would say you're a moron and of course you're not going to last...but those same qualities that led you to believe you have a career will probably help you get selected for management. Congrats on the job!
 




“In people, we know that repeated applications of stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression,” Dr. Lehmann said. “But one of the mysteries” of mental illness “is why some people respond pathologically to stress and some seem to be stress-resistant.”

To discern what was different, physiologically, about the stress-resistant mice, the scientists looked at brain cells using stains and other techniques. They determined that neurons in part of the rodents’ medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain involved in emotional processing in animals and people, had been firing often and rapidly in recent weeks, as had neurons in other, linked parts of the brain, including the amygdala, which is known to handle feelings of fear and anxiety.

The animals that had not run before moving in with the mean mice showed much less neuronal activity in these portions of the brain.

Dr. Lehmann said that he believed that the running was key to the exercised animals’ ability to bounce back from their unpleasant housing conditions.

Of course, as we all know, mice are not people. But the scientists believe that this particular experiment is a fair representation of human interpersonal relations, Dr. Lehmann said. Hierarchies, marked by bullying and resulting stress, are found among people all the time. Think of your own most dysfunctional office job. (Interestingly, the same experiment cannot be conducted on female mice, who like being housed together, Dr. Lehmann said, so he and his colleagues are testing a female-centric version, in which “cage mates are swapped out continuously,” to the consternation and grief of the female mice left behind.)

Perhaps best of all, Dr. Lehmann does not believe that hours of daily exercise are needed or desirable to achieve emotional resilience. The mice in his lab ran only when and for as long as they wished, over the course of several weeks. Other animal experiments have intimated that too much exercise could contribute to anxiety, and Dr. Lehmann agrees that that outcome is possible. Moderate levels of exercise seem to provide the most stress-relieving benefits, he said. Dr. Lehmann does not have a car and walks everywhere, and although he lives in Washington, a cauldron of stress induction, he describes himself as a “pretty calm guy.”
 




What are you saying, build treadmills in the office areas?

We can do that.

Anonymous said:
“In people, we know that repeated applications of stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression,” Dr. Lehmann said. “But one of the mysteries” of mental illness “is why some people respond pathologically to stress and some seem to be stress-resistant.”

To discern what was different, physiologically, about the stress-resistant mice, the scientists looked at brain cells using stains and other techniques. They determined that neurons in part of the rodents’ medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain involved in emotional processing in animals and people, had been firing often and rapidly in recent weeks, as had neurons in other, linked parts of the brain, including the amygdala, which is known to handle feelings of fear and anxiety.

The animals that had not run before moving in with the mean mice showed much less neuronal activity in these portions of the brain.

Dr. Lehmann said that he believed that the running was key to the exercised animals’ ability to bounce back from their unpleasant housing conditions.

Of course, as we all know, mice are not people. But the scientists believe that this particular experiment is a fair representation of human interpersonal relations, Dr. Lehmann said. Hierarchies, marked by bullying and resulting stress, are found among people all the time. Think of your own most dysfunctional office job. (Interestingly, the same experiment cannot be conducted on female mice, who like being housed together, Dr. Lehmann said, so he and his colleagues are testing a female-centric version, in which “cage mates are swapped out continuously,” to the consternation and grief of the female mice left behind.)

Perhaps best of all, Dr. Lehmann does not believe that hours of daily exercise are needed or desirable to achieve emotional resilience. The mice in his lab ran only when and for as long as they wished, over the course of several weeks. Other animal experiments have intimated that too much exercise could contribute to anxiety, and Dr. Lehmann agrees that that outcome is possible. Moderate levels of exercise seem to provide the most stress-relieving benefits, he said. Dr. Lehmann does not have a car and walks everywhere, and although he lives in Washington, a cauldron of stress induction, he describes himself as a “pretty calm guy.”
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