Pfizer Employee Reviews & Ratings

Management is not always available

Management Bad Leadership Low salary

None that are very serious

Executive leadership seems pretty clueless to what is actually needed and how to accomplish goals, very narrow-minded and reactionary. Layoffs / restructuring every 6 months. Compensation for technical areas is not well-aligned with industry standards. HR looks good cosmetically, but underneath the hood, it is *incredibly* inept across the board.

Learning & growth is limited

inconsistent policies and practices, too much focus on investor and media perception, pay not keeping up with competitors and inflation

Onboarding was tricky as organizational changes were in progress.

Little room for growth and rigid culture

Lose personal touch, office friendships , gossip !

Not enough pay, not enough career opportunities

There really are no cons

Too much work to do sometimes.

low salary, insufficient insurance package

Redundancies and changing culture with flat structure.

No issues noticed so far.

Contractors have the same responsibility as a regular employee, but are not treated in the same way. It is extremely rare to see a contractor being considered and hired for a regular position. If that is your expectation, this is not a place for you to work. Promotions and side hustles often only occur for a small group of people. As time goes by, you can see that some current leaders are relatives (sons, nephews,...) of former directors, leaders managing people of their own family (nepotism), and so on.

too PC internally and hard to get candid POVs when they are not inline with majority thought

different department communication take some time

this is not applicable for now

Not many cons i can think of.

Alot of Layoffs and Budget cuts

Inside sales tends to feel like a call center with micromanaging

Honestly can't think of any

It’s corporate so sometimes it can be hard to adapt

Development, they don’t promote that

pay scale and benefits also

Low salary Too much workload

Recent shift towards metrics driven performance not always for the benefit of the local business

Some processes are bureaucratic, outdated, and slow. Internal selection and promotion processes are not always transparent.

Another company that micromanages people to death. Not worth the headaches. Pay is low for people that are hard working.

Training is poor and often isn't directly relevant to the work.

Large company with many silos

Hard to grow in your career

recent org change to downsize no career advancement opportunities political

Not very competitive salaries, bureaucracy, changes are slow, working with so different time zones (Greece - US) is very challenging and may need to work at difficult hours.

Base salary rather low copmpared to the industry

Lots of red tape for everything due to sheer size of the organization

Lots of layoffs in the recent year

Non competitive salary packages, not very keen on hybrid mode of work

Hard to take on a lot of responsibility

Large companies = sometimes lots of rigid systems.

No cons from my feeling

Poor leadership from the CEO down to the senior managers. It's a company that lacks vision and focus and focuses too much on building a corporate culture of copycat science. Focus on shareholder value with high dividends while not investing back into the company

Constant yearly reorganizations create a toxic environment where many employees are under constant worry of losing their jobs which affects productivity. Attrition of experienced and highly effective scientists over the last number of years will impact overall effectiveness/success of the company. The stock price/performance has been embarrassing relative to many peers.

Pfizer obviously is a huge organization and it’s complex and difficult to navigate. Often when I was assigned a mentor to help navigate working with a new team or on a new document, that writer was not helpful. The demands and workloads constantly increased. Pfizer seems to have it down to a science how to extract the most labor out of employees while giving the least possible back. They coerced all employees to be covid vaccinated at the threat of termination, even those who worked fully remotely. Also when I left my health insurance coverage ended on the day my employment ended even though they had deducted the premium for the whole month according to my paystub. This was not returned to me.

Low pay and less benefits

Can it not be positive too.

Communication lines are hard to establish

No diversified enough, management need to focus

Looking for a new job