Fellow employees are great, managed by ineptitude - Anonymous employee Elanco Employee Review

2.0
13 July 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Fellow employees are great * 401k is decent * PTO is generous * Encouraged community engagement

Cons

* Most departments are highly insular, collaboration for lower level employees is not looked at well. * Management should be called “manglement”; they are inept, incapable of making long term strategies that pull their departments, and therefore the site out of firefighting mode. * As with many corporations, the higher ups have favorites, and you know if you are not on the list. * Promotions are rarely proven skill set and leadership movements, but problematic, unqualified people being moved into different positions because discontent has grown too loud. * Training is sub par, and a root cause of many of the constant issues. * Pay is low for the industry. * Retaliation up to, and including termination happens, despite heavy company lip service to the contrary. * Punitive sick leave policy: have a total of 5 sick days in a calendar year? The door is open to be fired.

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Elanco Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your feedback and insights. We will take your feedback seriously and have passed it along internally. Wish you best with future endeavors.

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Pros

Management listens to their emoloyees. Great benefits.

Cons

Old equipment. Lots of forced ot for hourly employees

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Elanco Response
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We appreciate your positive feedback regarding management and benefits. At Elanco, we are dedicated to the wellbeing of our employees and are always looking for opportunities for improvement - we thank you for your feedback!
2.0
20 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of great, passionate coworkers who work hard and collaborate. I had a lot of professional flexibility and my job was always interesting. Process teams on the manufacturing floor is a great system. Offsite resources, especially technical experts, are great.

Cons

Expect to be firefighting constantly and frequently fighting against an aging facility and outdated processes. No unified vision or clear prioritization from management. Misalignment between site leadership and upper/off-site management created sustained operational friction and stress for employees. Leadership turnover was frequent, contributing to ongoing instability. Because of all this, there was a super low morale and a feeling of widespread fatigue. Inconsistent communication and decision-making standards contributed to a low-trust culture, including regular informal discussion of colleagues and unprofessional and sometimes intimidating behavior in meetings. Performance feedback and perceived value were highly dependent on shifting leadership dynamics rather than consistent, objective criteria. Employees could move from being strongly supported to heavily criticized with little change in actual performance. Although a nine-box review process was supposedly used, individual outcomes were not transparently shared with employees. Onboarding and training for specialized roles were underdeveloped. Compensation was just fine for workload and scope of responsibility.

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