Pfizer reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,726 total reviews)
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Albert Bourla

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,726 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
1.0
Mar 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pros – - good benefit and compensation - very little workload and very little work being done - onsite gym and flexible working hours - helping your manager renovating his house will get you a long way

Cons

Cons – - all politics and no reward for hard work - be careful with the HR. They could lure you back from cancer treatment and lay you off - limited career growth for minorities and women in general - severance package getting worse over the years

2.0
Nov 2, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Encouraged me right up until the end! - took advantage of all of my ideas for improvement and really improved the program...

Cons

Told me that they preferred to hire within - when asked for them to confirm that 1. I didn't have the most experience or 2. I didn't have the best ideas for program improvement or 3. I wasn't the best fit for the program and job description - I was told - "No, I didn't say any of that. What I am saying is this is the best for Pfizer, Inc. People are losing their jobs - we need to put them somewhere." - I then went on to set up a new infrastructure and train all of the "new hires" - people they needed to put somewhere so that they didn't have to report them as turnover...

1.0
Oct 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits-for now... Get an opportunity to work with some really competent people, and get to work with people from the other side of the fence as well...

Cons

- Production workers afraid to report injuries because of risk of losing job, in spite of Pfizer's rants about an open policy. - Company won't allow any current Pfizer employee to give a job reference to departed employees, they can be fired for it. Yet Pfizer requires incoming job candidates to provide references from previous employers..... -Constant bickering, turf protection and silo behaviors within and between departments, divisions, and sites. -No real integration between Pfizer and the companies it has acquired, other than gutting them out and dismissing as many of the 'outsiders' as possible. -Globalization of the business will continue to decrease stateside opportunities in the future. Don't plan on staying there.

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