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      Pfizer

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      Pfizer reviews

      3.7

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (8,732 total reviews)
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      Albert Bourla

      50% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,732 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 Pharmaceutique et biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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      9K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 20, 2008

      Pfizer is generally a good place to work. Unfortunate location for it's PGRD headquarters.

      It senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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.

      4.0
      Jun 19, 2008

      Some tough times ahead, but a promising future

      Senior manager, it
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pfizer is the industry leader and its global reach allows colleagues to experience a great deal of work diversity. While the glory days of the pharmaceutical industry were the late 1990's and early 2000's, Pfizer will continue to be an industry powerhouse. The company is diverifying its core pharmaceutical approach by expanding into biotech, and reorienting it's sales and marketing force away from product-based approaches to customer-based strategies.

      Cons

      The industry is in the dumps and Pfizer is going through a particularly tough time; a hangover from the roaring 1990's. As a result, some talented leaders have left (or been asked to leave) and many of those left are overwhelmed. I think this is a temporary solution, but the cost-savings exercises we are experiencing has taken much of the fun out of working for Pfizer. If the salary and benefits weren't so good, I probably would have left already.

      4.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Pfizer has been good to me

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits are excellent. I have a $15 co-pay for doctors' visits and pay $0 for prescriptions. There are many health & wellness initiative available like stress relief counseling, health screenings, etc. Pfizer has many locations so I've had lots of opportunities to travel to different sites, although travel is being curtailed due the current financial situation. Pfizer has an excellent technological infrastructure- I have a reliable laptop, blackberry, etc. When something breaks, the Help Desk fixes it quickly, unlike many of my friends' companies. Lately senior management has been doing a really good job of communicating what's going on to the lower levels. Most of the people who work here are good to work with. And most importantly, Pfizer medicines save lives- it's hard to argue w/ that when that's your mission statement.

      Cons

      Due to the two massive acquisitions (Warner Lambert and Pharmacia), the company has become too big, with too much bureaucracy, which sometimes makes it difficult to get things done. After five years of working here, I finally am starting to feel like I understand the business and have developed enough contacts so I know who to call when I need to get something accomplished. It seems like we are currently paying for past management's mistakes- there is definitely a lot of worry about the loss of exclusivity for Lipitor and other products. Sales are lagging, the stock price is falling, and everyone is wondering how this is all going to pan out.

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