AstraZeneca reviews

African Americans are used as tokens throughout the organization and are not given meaningful opportunities for visibility, promotions, and leadership. The environment at AZ can be cutthroat in general with others willingly throwing you under the bus, but with AAs - it's magnified because we are low hanging fruit, and others willingly accept a narrative that you are inferior and will use that to hold you back. You will constantly feel uncomfortable and excluded at AZ - this is both with respect to US and global teams in Gaithersburg, Wilmington, Cambridge, and other locations as I have worked across teams and offices. Diversity efforts are for show only and are largely focused on promoting caucasian women and checking the box on addressing diversity. You will not see any other AAs in leadership positions or even above a Director level. As I now am with another organization, while there is work to be done by everyone, there is a STARK difference in how my new organization treats AAs as compared to AstraZeneca I can't recommend AZ to another AA unless there is a major culture shift within the company.

Those that have been there the longest are the ones that cause drama and gossip the most, they look for reasons to get people in trouble and treat co workers poorly because they are untouchable. I witnessed people get together to discuss what they will say to HR and management regarding people they do not like or plays by the rules set forth by Astra Zeneca and I watched management and HR target those same people. There was encouragement to record people’s conversation and present the recordings although this was against company policy. The place was so toxic and unwelcoming especially towards darker skinned or mixed people when the mixed people were identifying black. There was protection for certain people although they were blatantly racist and discriminate against people who they did not identify with and management as well as HR supported this behavior. Quality group would write untrue things in deviations, training records were falsified by those higher in management and the company got away with these things. The company seems to be racist and makes people that are not of the majority suffer by poor treatment. The people that have been there as manufacturing operators are the worst people to work with, the ad was person is nasty and treated people like crap purposefully intimidating those he did not like and favored those that were Spanish speaking.