Pfizer Employee Reviews & Ratings

same as any large company; near-constant change in org structure, simple things can be hard to get done (purchasing/invoicing, etc)

Nothing at all to be mentioned

constant reorganizations deteriorates morale to employees

Company is huge hard to find a place sometimes

Too many organizational changes, too many layoffs, takes forever to get things done at times due to complex processes

Constant change, chaos, rigid processes that only certain people need to follow

a lot of tedious work

1. Toxic culture - everything must be done at "lightspeed" which means working more hours to finish projects in a ridiculously short span of time at the expense of employee physical and mental health. The irony is they are always driving simplicity and mental health awareness. To demonstrate, my average actual standard work hours is 60 hours / week and I experienced my team being pushed to work a total of 150 hours for 2 weeks straight without additional compensation. 2. Operations are constantly disrupted by restructuring every 1 or 2 years. The fastest l I saw in my number of years of working here was a restructuring after 6 months. 3. They don't really care about people. Executives only care about their own pockets .

Big company politics and to many layers of management

No cons that I can think of

-Bureaucratic mess -Siloed organization -Limited growth opportunities (especially for the next few years)

The “reorgs” are increasing in frequency.

Very global company so have to work late sometimes

Unless you have a technically savvy manager, you will be on your own. Limited room for growth based, unless someone senior leaves. The culture can get toxic

Restructuring in recent years, massive changes

Culture and morale has gone downhill since the announcement of layoffs

Senior leadership is awful and doesn’t care about employees

Lots of layoffs recently and little changes to cross-train.

Sometimes too much red tape

No work life balance and toxic culture

Lots of red-tape, workflows are not always well documented

•Work load is challenging •Highly-flexible environment •Allowances have not changed over 6 years; Value of allowances are no longer competitive considering today’s market inflation •limited career growth •Highly competitive environment with scoring metrics

Poor management, toxic leadership, very heirarchical and bureaucratic. Open door policy is fake

No strategy, sticky leadership with no appetite to innovate.

Beurocracy and red tape hold back innovation

Very hard to move up in the company

Not much to be said

current budget cuts demoralized teams and are restricting productivity

-micromanaging is out of control. zero trust in the reps ability to manage their own territory. -no next level opportunity at all. Or if there is it’s extremely selective and minimal. I’m speaking directly about pfizer connect. -out of control nepotism from upper management. -gaslighting from upper management that good numbers play a role in your next steps within the company is always horrible and disappointing , wake up the next morning to see someone was promoted based on nepotism and favoritism with poor metrics. Once or twice is a coincidence but 8-10 isn’t. Top reps are leaving the company. -unrealistic expectations. they basically want to work you hard every-week and know exactly what your doing when your doing it each step of the way. Zero regard for anyone’s emotional or mental health during the process. Treat you like a soulless robot. -high school environment. immature people.

There are a lot of layoffs in the pharma industry, however Pfizer does a great job by putting effort in to still take care of their employees if there is a massive layoff.

Not found yet as still not enough experience in the company

The salary could be better

complex compliance policies and bureaucratic processes

there are no real cons

Some days can be long work hours

Lower pay and company layoffs

No direction for new hires

The company laid me and others off because of their incompetence

The management has some psychopaths

Hard to get promoted of in the US

If you work at Mcpherson, no other Pfizer site will hire you

Insane work load due to manpower headcount budgeting ( 1 person running a minimum of 3 person workload) Be expected to the long working hour and ridiculous dateline. Salary is very low compared to other industry and the remuneration is not worth the torture and mental health. Change in the management with huge influx from A particular competitor company that has a total complete different culture as the PFIZER culture. The management SLTs do not embrace and encourage Pfizer culture. The management SLTs are only focus on deliverables and minimum care to employees well being and growth. TUAS sg site. Any one who wishes to avoid mental Health (depression, work anxiety) - look elsewhere. Any one who wishes to start a work life balance- you are in the wrong place.

Constant organizational structure variation: almost every year

Cant think of any con

Frequent reorg and sometimes cost saving activities

Micromanaging Managers are all about favoring certain people. Lazy people get away with being lazy. Good workers get no praise or recognition but get lazy people pull their weight one day and get huge recognition. Lots of manipulation and bullying going on. No culture what so ever. No one especially managers care about staff. You get promoted if your friends with the right people. Open door policy non existent - they want you to say nothing about problem they don’t want to hear it. Very toxic. Not a friendly place

Pay too low Internal Growth

Company only cares about money, barely any pay increases and random lay offs

As a traditional pharmaceutical company holds the culture of a dinosaur company. Most of the management is based in US, a lot of them are more focused on their calm retirement than on making young people exploit their potential and capacity. Hence, making a progressive career may get a bit slow and as you are paid more than okay it may end up working against your career development.

Lack of growth opportunities at Pfizer