Allergan Reviews

Pros

Allergan has a great senior management team who set up reasonable goals and directions.

It's about the right size that tele-conference is not yet the norm and you get to work and communicate with team members daily.

Promote learning and growth.

Have great teams that takes responsibility of their individual functions.

Cons

Workload can be heavy.

Compensation is sometimes below industry standard especially for junior level employees. When combined with the high living cost and fewer pharmaceutical job opportunities in southern california, it can be quite discouraging to attract talents.

Pros

Some of the people are worth getting to know
Training provided is quite good

Cons

Gossip goes unchecked
Accused of wrong-doing by management that may not be true
HR give you a 1 day warning to move your belongings out and leave the office once you have resigned
Do not work in the clinical research department

Advice to Senior Management

Have some sort of policy on office gossip and enforce it, do not listen to it.
Locate the narcissistic employee within your department and report their actions to HR and if HR will not help (and they most likely won't), get the Fair Work Ombudsman involved

Pros

The Salary is very competitive
The Benefits are competitive (but could be better)
Retirement Package is competitive (but could be better)

Cons

No work-life balance
No team work
No support
No training

"Sink or swim" mentality. Mass Exodus and Mass Hire. No compassion for their employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that human beings are human beings. Need to be more organized and care about their employees. They definitely have a "revolving door" and to say "high turnover" is an understatement. Employees are just numbers that can be replaced. Who cares about "you" type of attitude should be changed.

Pros

Brands name, company recognition in the field.

Cons

Terrible communication from senior management to lower levels, global and local strategy doesn't exist or hasn't been deployed properly. Promotions based on seniority not performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication and empower lower levels.

Pros

Allergan is works to develop their people not only for their current role, but also future roles in the organization. They focus on how to be fully enegaged at home and work.

Cons

The only downside is that with so many talented indivduals and a small organization don't allow for quick movement up the career ladder.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep focusing on how we can move within different divisions. Also keep integrating trainings on how to be fully engaged at work and home

Pros

The workload at Allergan is fairly low and so are expectations by management. The RDIS department in particular spends a substantial amount of money on contractors that deliver nothing to projects.

Cons

Complete lack of accountability and direction. Promotional opportunities are based on time at the company instead of performance and successful delivery of projects.

Advice to Senior Management

Start providing clear leadership and strongly consider a drastic restructuring of the RDIS department. Focus on retention of new employees and begin transitioning work away from the 'close to retirement' staff. Enforce consequences relating to missed delivery on commitments and gross overspending.

Pros

Very diversified business, which bodes well for the stock performance. Has significant investment in R&D that should lead to strong future growth (pharma and breast divisions). Very mellow place to work and is probably the most relaxed field sales environment that i have experienced in 12 years and three different medical device companies.

Cons

Allergan is still working to best integrate medical devices into its diverse portfolio. Need more diversity in that space but they have a few years experience in this sector.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to stay diverse as it is a true advantage. Look to find ways to incorporate additional medical device experience in all functional areas.

Pros

Allergan is filled with opportunities and inspirations. People there are hard working, smart, and influential individuals. An excellent place for one to build strong professional strengths and share creativity.

Cons

The only downside of working at Allergan is that you won't hear you cell phone ring. Because you are just simply way too into your work.

Pros

- Decent Pay when you are a top performer
- Stock Options as you get promoted to higher levels
- Individual accountability is an organizational ideal

Cons

- Work/life balance non-existant for sales management.
- accountability is enforced in the salesforce but not often in the senior leadership team
- not enough communication/teamwork between sales & marketing

Pros

The company itself is very stable and secure. If you are proactive about your own personal development, the opportunities are endless.

Cons

It's definitely a company where there are more people wanting to be chiefs rather than indians...with limited seats in upper management, i can only imagine how the few are selected.

Advice to Senior Management

Rewards/promotions in the company should be done by merit, not seniority.