Pfizer reviews

3.7

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 3.7 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
1.0
Dec 18, 2022

Pfizer is not an equal employer for top performers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing office space-excellent learning & development plan

Cons

The salaries are extremely low. The salaries should have to be re-calculated. Many salary discrepancies among the employees (a person with 10 years of working experience probably is having the same salary with a person with 2 years of working experience). If you want to be promoted on Pfizer, you need to wait for many years and to have very good relationship with your boss. Lack of inspirational leadership in US.

3.0
Dec 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. Colleagues were the most dedicated, hardest working people I have ever met. Big companies are organized and systematic in implementing continuous improvements and Pfizer was no exception (albeit a bit behind technologically, compared with similar companies).

Cons

Absolutely no work life balance. Several people in Quality had legit nervous breakdowns and had to be out on leave. There were no boundaries between work and personal life. Colleagues called on holidays, weekends, etc. and though they are careful to never say it aloud, the culture there is very clear that you are expected to prioritize Pfizer above everything and everyone else in your life.

2.0
Aug 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good and the caregiver and sick days helped compensate for no work life balance.

Cons

No work life balance for certain departments. In injectable filling, your opinion doesn't matter about the future scheduling taking away or weekend pay or anything that pertains to you. Higher ups act like they want to know what you think but whatever you say falls on deaf ears. There is a second shift supervisor who is the most by the book guy I have worked for. Everything is black and white in his mind, and he just wants to climb the ladder. He does not have your back and I did not get my exit interview because it would have been with him, not HR. Even if I did do my exit interview, I would not have been able to comfortably express my concerns or known if they would have moved upwards or just trashed. I also have a same sex partner and submitted Pfizer's paper work to have them put on my insurance to no avail after months of contacting and questioning about the application. They fly the rainbow flag in June but prepare to jump through hoops if you have a same sex partner and are trying to get them on your benefits. You'd do better to have a courthouse wedding than try to enroll them as your domestic partner.

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