Pfizer reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,709 total reviews)
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Albert Bourla

50% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 8,709 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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9K reviews
3.0
Jan 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and pay, in theory (or in pockets) favours innovative projects and has the resources to see them through. Excellent internal systems, possibilities for employees to change roles internally

Cons

Awful politics, internal infighting, big egos, in short, the definition of dinosaur Pharma who constantly restructures so that it never changes. Employees who never leave and whose main skill is Pfizer experience and risk management (this means that they make sure that innovative projects do not easily take off).

2.0
Nov 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

A nice office in NYC and the people are mostly kind. Very smart co-workers and generally good WLB.

Cons

Leadership (at the ELT level) is terrible. They guided the company’s decisions into bad performance resulting in mass layoffs but they seem tone deaf each time they discuss it. They have zero sense of accountability and I would not trust them to keep this company stable without a full blown pandemic driving demand for Covid products. Dont expect any helpful form of onboarding to the company. You’re handed a laptop, an “onboarding buddy” which is typically a person on your team who is too swamped to actually do that role for you, and then a deluge of work is thrown at you right away. It’s very sink or swim in the first couple of weeks. Return to office has been a complete mess. They list 2-3 days on job descriptions but the truth is it’s 2.5 days over a 6-week average. Meaning if you do 2 days one week, you have to do 3 the next. That’s fine until you take time off and that PTO affects your badge swipes with no way to track that you were away on PTO. Taking a week vacation can easily result in you missing your 2.5 average and ending up on a list with HR. Also, there’s no way to track your time off at Pfizer but for some reason you can “buy more vacation” during open enrollment. Good luck convincing your manager you bought an extra week with no site or system to point to. I find Pfizer to be highly disorganized and poorly led but there definitely worse places to work overall. I would not trust my career here with the current leadership that’s in place.

1.0
Nov 5, 2023

Company Going Downhill

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work with some great people, benefits are great

Cons

Company is in a constant state of re-org and change. Zero job security. Nothing ever gets executed before some senior leader changes the direction of the company and everything has to be rebuilt.

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