AstraZeneca reviews

The culture is the worst I’ve ever experienced in any organisation, by some way. It is individualistic, anti-collaborative and relentlessly inhuman. There is a shocking lack of accountability and rampant ‘slopey shoulder’ syndrome. Advancement and preferment is driven by favoritism - either you’re on the good list or you’re not. If not, your time is limited. The CEO communicates regularly about business performance. As he should. But he literally never communicates about anything else. This is most glaringly obvious when it comes to the company’s culture. His silence on this speaks volumes. The ability to do good work is further hampered by the lack of a coherent IT strategy. There’s a bizarre willingness to let a thousand flowers bloom and an internal market that drains business area budgets with no accompanying accountability for how the $$$ are spent. A shocking experience to have worked there.

Culture of intimidation, bullying and fear the closer the role is to the Senior Executive Team (SET) Excessive hours Poor middle management, Vice Presidents (VPs) and Senior VPs, who do not know how to motivate people PowerPoint driven culture - not on a slide? no interest = 100s of slides In-fighting and politics require excessive stakeholder management and slows down internal communication Too many strong personalities dominating senior positions, so people are scared to speak up