AstraZeneca reviews

Unclear processes or no processes at all. ‘Training’ entailed reading the processes, which per the aforementioned, equates to essentially no training at all. This lack of processes and inadequate training resulted in inefficiency due to time spent trying to figure things out. Work-life balance was a challenge due to unrealistic deadlines, which were driven by pressure from the top; this may be the nature of the competitive pharma industry and not unique to AZ though, but the lack of processes and inadequate training exacerbated the work-life balance problem. Compensation was low compared to competitors. Benefits were okay, but there are competitors who have similar or better benefits. RTO is a dicey topic for many companies post pandemic, but this company’s handling of it has to be one of the worst. The company could have provided a clear and reasonable RTO policy with clear expectations and an effective start date, but instead chose to approach RTO in an unclear, unfair, inflexible, shady, and dictator-like way with surprise bonus cuts and termination threats. Managers, department heads, and HR were even blindsided by the mishandling of RTO, and there was a scramble to clean up the messes of leadership. This revealed a dysfunctional, toxic work environment and a leadership that cannot be trusted and who does not care about their employees, and consequently there was a lot of turnover.

The political nonsense is more than enough to drive someone into a deep depression. I have worked in the industry for quite sometime. I have to say, AstraZeneca was by far the worst place I have ever been employed at. There was a new hire orientation every single Monday for full time people and new contractors. Meaning their turn over rate is just awful. I know several women who worked their for 6+ years, that were let go. Yet they are still hiring. They also promise all of their contractor that once they are full time their pay will increase, but it doesn’t. Instead, they will keep that person a contractor for as long as they can, then cut their contract. I have seen it happen with every single contract person I knew. Higher ups are extremely hypocritical due to the fact that they spout these values saying that they care about diversity and inclusion. All the while locally they tried and tried denying any group that has to do with the LGBTQ+ community. There is also a major racial and sexist issues. When a complaint of racism or sexism would be reported, higher ups would look the other way. Even if HR got involved, they know these people so instead of taking a reasonable action against numerous complaints, instead, they force the victim out of the company. Not the perpetrator! They would put the victim on PIP for no reason, they would pull work from other teams only to increasing the vics workload. If they email for time off months in advance higher ups will flat out deny it. I also attempted to move to several better positions. I went through all of the processes and even got verbal offer letters. However when the time came for the actual offer letters, I never heard anything. I never even got rejection emails. Instead, I would just meet the person they put into the position. Those people are truly monsters and they still work there to this day. Please please please whatever you do, if you are thinking about working here, think twice. If you are through the hiring process, get hired and find something else. Keep your head down and do not fully engage with anyone. The moment that you do, they will find something about you that they do not like and your job will be on the line. I sincerely kid you not.