Pfizer reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,708 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 8,708 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
5.0
Nov 18, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Company is very innovative and often comes up with solutions to problems which have not yet been encountered. As I interend with them I remember recieving e-mails from Pfizer's R&D as well as other divisions. In previous jobs I remember low communication or poor decisions being made on a management level. While at Pfizer I was never dissapointed with an e-mail communication, often it seemed as if they knew exactly what issue or challenege that was on my mind and acted to on it before it created an issue. Pfizer also has very competitive pay and truly takes care of their employees, for a $46 Billion dollar company they do a great job of making workers feel valued. There was also a great feeling of independence in the role.

Cons

Company is very large and as a sales agent it can be easy to get lost in the shuffle if you desire constant one on one supervision or contact. There was also occasional misalignment between marketing and field force. Sometimes marketing may make great strides to launch a campaign and not value as much of the insight as what have may been valued that was offered by field force. There were not too many other downsides that I saw during my time with Pfizer. There could potentially be issues depending on what area or divisional manager that you are under as each have their own management style.

2.0
Nov 8, 2008

Pfizer Values - All Talk, No Action

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Location, good health benefits, location

Cons

Poor management, illogical cost & personnel cutting, poor corporate leadership in decision making

4.0
Oct 31, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pfizer has great benefits and is family friendly. Pfizer recently formally enacted flex hours so most professionals are off on Fridays or at least Friday afternoons. The vacation plan is decent and the medical coverage is excellent with free prescription drugs and low copays for the doctor. I found that local managers are willing to work with you to accommodate time off for family matters. Professionals can set their own start times each day to get home before the school bus. Like I said really family friendly. I've taken time off during the day to attend a school activity and just worked later in the evening.

Cons

There is a paranoid feeling about the whole place. Every year brings another round of layoffs. Every business unit seems to get hit by these layoffs with strict percentage cuts now matter how lean the group was before the layoff announcements. Also pay increases are running less than inflation for the past four or five years. A worker in their twenties would be hard pressed to make a career in the current environment. Everyone has lost a good friend to the downsizing and the age of an average worker gets higher every year because of the hiring freeze in place.

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