AstraZeneca reviews

- Constant stream of layoffs has created an atmosphere of fear. Scapegoating which was unheard of a few years ago is now common, with managers throwing their reports under the bus to save their own skins. - There is a constant blame shifting atmosphere as individuals struggle to avoid responsibility for fear of being targeted in the next series of layoffs. This leads to both to scapegoating and to endless series of meetings to attempt to reach a consensus decision on almost everything. Unfortunately unless everyone agrees no one will agree and while clear cut yes/no decisions are made, decisions in the grey area are trapped in an endless series of meetings with no one willing to say yes or no. - New senior management has encouraged an extremely political atmosphere in which office politics and backstabbing are paramount. As a result the primary focus of middle management has shifted from discovering new drugs to surviving office politics. - There has been an extremely rapid series of reorganizations/business plan shifts. This is extremely disruptive. Drug development is a long process with drugs taking years to progress from discovery to the marketplace. Changing business plans every year or two doesn't work with a development process that long and just makes the pipeline problem worse. - There is a significant pipeline problem that everyone new was coming but senior management made inadequate preparations and now lower level employees are suffering while the senior level people who made the bad decisions are leaving with very golden parachutes.

Senior management has destroyed this company and continues to make poor decisions. Workers scapegoated for senior management failure. There is no accountability for Upper management. They still receive obscene levels of compensation whether they deliver or not and are guaranteed golden parachutes upon exit. This company wastes money hand over fist and continues to compound this by having to pay to undo messes.They don't care about the quality of the work but Just want to maximize profits at any cost. Workers are looked at as an expense rather than a resource that can build capital. They continue to export jobs to countries with cheap labour and human rights abuses.