Pfizer reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,732 total reviews)
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Albert Bourla

50% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,732 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pfizer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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9K reviews
2.0
May 20, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Remnant management left from Wyeth makes the job tolerable as well as my hard working coworkers. It gets more and more difficult to think of reasons that make this company a good one to work for, at least in my position and location. Senior site management is open to suggestions and promotes education and innovation.

Cons

Flattening has reduced opportunity for advancement. Reduction in force has reduced opportunity even for lateral movement. If you're in work related to manufacturing, you're stuck where you are. Layoffs have become a yearly occurrence. Management is making stupid decisions. Want a new laptop? Tough luck this year, even if your equipment is slower than a snail. Also, layoff all the people in manufacturing who know what they're doing. When things fall into chaos, hire all new people who have no idea what they're doing who use up all the time of the few people left who do because they're busy training the new hires. Then scratch your head and wonder why everything's going to hell. Introduce all kinds of new systems for purchase requisitions, documents and other things then sit back and watch all the frustration when people try to learn several new things at once. Pfizer is doing a great job of ruining our integrity while encouraging us to "Own It."

4.0
May 19, 2012

Good place to start your career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pfizer has a strong learning environment for someone starting out in their career. If you find the right mentor, this could be an excellent opportunity to get ahead of the pack. They have excellent benefits all around.

Cons

I feel that biannual review process was not always the best - there tended to be a lot of "curve fitting" within an function/division rather than rating someone based on his/her accomplishments against goals and merits. With so many major M&As over the past decade (Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia, Wyeth, King), the company is still struggling to get all of the integration done.

2.0
May 18, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

My co-workers in the trenches are generally sincerely dedicated professionals who want to make a difference in the world and contribute to making medicines. Every day they look for ways to improve how things are done.

Cons

Senior management does not have a sustainable vision for the future of the company. They need to engage the scientists and support staff better, but they are not comitted to long-term successful R&D.

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