Eli Lilly is conducting stealth layoffs and re-organizations, confirmed first-hand by multiple recently laid-off employees.

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        "excerpt": "I am so sorry this happened to you. Also, thank you for confirming that there were layoffs at Eli Lilly. There were so many departure posts on LinkedIn from long-term Eli Lilly employees last month. It was peculiar to see so many departure posts.\n\n I was laid off too, and I am trying my best to stay away from companies that are laying off employees. I will pause on applying at Lilly.",
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        "excerpt": "I’m only in my mid-thirties but I was happy and also planned to stay with Lilly until I was ready to retire. There had been so much opportunities for growth, so many resources available it was really a wonderful place to work. I along with my department was blindsided a few months ago during a last minute townhall and told our org is revamping. My department was told we would have to apply for a h",
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        "excerpt": "Lilly is 100% doing stealth layoffs. Last year they implemented BS performance metrics, and almost every org is slowly going through re-org where positions are cut, everyone has to re-apply for their jobs and older people are pushed out. They’ve been telling everyone to do 10X more with less resources. Managers were told to identify people to put on PIPs and “needs improvement” so they can eventua",
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        "excerpt": "What area do you work in? Clinical Operations has gone through some real crunch time. As has Medical Affairs.\n\n Have you considered independent consulting? Even with just 4 years at Lilly, plus your previous experience at a top medical group, you should have enough subject matter expertise to be your own boss and offer independent consulting input to biotechs.\nMany companies, especially smaller bi",
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        "excerpt": "Throw away account here. Lilly has great benefits and maybe the best outlook in the industry. However internally it's chaos, pressure, fear, and a lack of resources everywhere. The latest relocation I've heard of was admins. Sr leaders were given a few Claude walk throughs of how to create a personal assistant. Meanwhile they probably don't have an extra min in their day to do this essential but l",
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