Pfizer reviews

Despite the many Pros of a career with Pfizer, I can only rate the organization with 3 of 5 stars because during my later years, as the company expanded greatly and acquired numerous other companies, I was increasingly surrounded with colleagues who lacked the professional standards that Pfizer taught me in my early years. Leaders at the highest level of the corporation created an atmosphere of distrust and a sense that the company was 'circling the drain'. While patent expirations, pressures from managed care, negative public opinion of the industry and gaps in scientific discovery were putting substantial pressure on the company, fewer and fewer of the leaders seemed able to provide calm guidance and honest leadership but instead, seemed to panic.

After a decade of constant layoffs, morale is terrible. You can feel like the axe can fall at any time. Pfizer is too quick to go to layoffs without assessing the portfolio needs a few years out. Too driven by accountants and the immediate financials instead of playing the long game. The delayering from a few years ago created very little room for moving up the corporate latter. The annual news is always to do more with fewer resources. In the almost decade of work, I never got anything more than a 3% annual pay raise despite always getting solid to excellent annual reviews.