Pfizer reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,707 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 8,707 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
Jun 22, 2008

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layoffs, financial situation, long commute

1.0
Jun 21, 2008
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Pros

They give money regularly to the people who spend some time in between their walls, if you are from a "visible minority" there is a good chance that you will receive some promotion and get protected whatever you do. If you are a woman and get pregnant, then you can get truly great benefits. If you are fired then you will get a great redundancy package.

Cons

It is a heavily bureaucratic mammoth. There is no creativity since the management decided to fire the people with it. Therefore the only trend is idea stealing: other patents are studied hard to try to make something but with very little success. There are several malfunctions all around the place from the top management who requires its employees to communicate with them while you have to beg to get the information the other way around. Several important projects are only thought half way and result in great loss of money and time, the business rules applies only to those outside of the US while the US colleagues act like cowboys and are free to do whatever they want with no supervision. We are told to save money but everything is made to waste it !

4.0
Jun 20, 2008
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Pros

Lots of opportunities. If you want, you can really take control of your own life.

Cons

Location in Connecticut. The Connecticut site is full of old, fat, dull, people with little imagination, obsessed with rules and sticking to standard process. There is very little collaboration. The offices are like prisons, the buildings seem to come out of the 50's. They do not in the least encourage communication or collaboration. As a result the place appears to be dead at 4.00pm in the afternoon. When they re-model some of the buildings they are going to find dead people inside, where office doors haven't been opened for years. The other sites around the world are far far better and models of communication. Stop being so obsessed by image. Connecticut has the old american view that if someone comes across flashy with all the correct words (sounding like a consultant) they should be promoted. The rest of the world is moving away to actually check that these people are good and can deliver things.

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