Pfizer Reviews

Pros

Competive salary, respect for people, work/family life balance is well respected and encouraged. Great benefits, and fitness center on site!

Cons

No bonus or incentives for non management employees. Constantly cutting jobs or relocating people. You never know if you are next.

Advice to Senior Management

If you expect employees to go above and beyond, you should provide bonuses and/or incentives to ALL employees.Or at least make it easier or encourage the managers to provide.

Pros

Very resourceful, and many experienced colleagues

Cons

constantly laying off the people, feel insecure for job situation

Advice to Senior Management

Stability of the work force

Pros

Hands off approach management style in my department.

Cons

Site closures and letting go of most experienced personnel.

Pros

Great benefits; high-end salaries; many mid-level employees who want to do the right thing despite the lack of senior management support.

Cons

Until Pfizer figures out who it wants to be (or discovers a new drug), the company will continue to be in chaos. The key word at Pfizer was once "integrity." From my perspective, the new words are: view legacy staff as "old-school" and then hire managers from the outside, provide hugh sign-on bonuses, discover that they are in fact incompetent and only interested in lining their own pockets, and then pay them to leave. When Pfizer managment understood the pharamaceutival industry, as the current administration does not (except for the lame duck CEO), Pfizer was a great company. Once senior management was replaced by people with no long-term vision, it was the beginning of the end. If you accept a job at Pfizer, remember the name of the game is not speaking your mind about anything, ever. Just say yes and collect a big fat paycheck. If you want to understand Pfizer, read the aricle "Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup" published on July 28, 2011.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize the level of incompetence that surrounds you and do something about it. Or just give up as many employees have. Good luck.

Pros

great compensation and benefits! training is exceptional!

Cons

at times it felt like a high school cafeteria; the gossiping was distracting. not enough motivation from DMs, but politics were plenty

Pros

It is hard to find a job in such economic condition. Pharma industry is recession proof. The company super rich in cash and margin is outrageously high.

Cons

Bureaucratic management, just do the talking any very versed in office politics. Cannot see the value of many people like those in HR.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people fairly by exactly how much is devoted to the work.

Pros

Good compensation and benefits
Liked the secondment prgram, since it offered growth and development opportunities
Family friendly, flexible work schedule, promotes healthy life style

Cons

Too big and therefore can be rather impersonal and create communication difficulties. Constant employee upheaveals makes it difficult to retain knowledge

Advice to Senior Management

Looks like you may be on the right track by downsizing and making a smaller, numble company. Get employees on board for comapny goals and objectives

Pros

Huge amount of scientific knowledge and facilities on the whole were very good.

Cons

The department I worked for was new and badly thought out, some of the staff recruited were simply not suitable for the positions they were in.

Advice to Senior Management

If you set up a new Tox dept hire experienced Tox people first and not from within.

Pros

No comments, acceptable salary compensation

Cons

A place to work but not to develop a career

Pros

Used to be a great company before all of the Senior management changes.

Cons

They don't walk the talk.
Still believe that the old model will provide success in today's market.

Advice to Senior Management

Enough with the cartoon characters and insincere communication. Stop trying to fit the European model on a US company.