Pfizer reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,725 total reviews)
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Albert Bourla

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,725 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
May 10, 2014

Worst experience ever!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free Pfizer drugs, ability to commiserate with other inmates.

Cons

Pfizer got rid of most of its administrative staff so that the execs could keep their jobs and hefty salaries. In return, they all agreed to become administratively independent. Unfortunately the execs still believe that the one and only team assistant is their personal assistant and require instant responses to their demands even though the one and only assistant is receiving similar demands from 20 other people. They try to get their demands met instantly through chastisement and badgering, which is a sub-optimal management style. If the one and only assistant pushes back, s/he is maligned. Believing that the company can function properly without adequate administrative staff is misguided. There are too many bad business practices to track here, so I won't get into the sadistic systems. Suffice it to say that Pfizer has become the Walmart of the pharmaceutical industry. Administrative candidates and AstraZeneca beware!

4.0
Mar 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

lots of development opportunities, terrific benefits, good work-life balance, good people to work with; compensation adequate; good pipeline

Cons

good ole boy network very much alive; lots of changes happen that appear just for the sake of change; frequent layoffs and reorgs,.

1.0
Nov 25, 2013

Great chemistry, terrible management.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good scientists scattered throughout organization.

Cons

Management structure without scientific expertise.

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