Pfizer Reviews

Pros

Good Training and compensation. Great entry level position with opportunity to grow for a while. Constantly trying to find new ways to do business.

Cons

This is no longer a salespersons job. Words are very scripted and creativity is no longer encouraged. Primary care continues to look like it will shrink due to lack of new products brought to the market.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop letting this company be ruined through HR and legal. People are afraid to do things that are within compliance because they are not sure. Salespeople are no longer sales people. Allow them to sell!

Pros

excellent benefit, good location, and leading edge research facilities

Cons

constant re-organization is demoralizing talented workforce.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management needs to communicate more frequently with scientists.

Pros

Was a great place to grow and learn all aspects of the industry...not so much now
Lots of great people with incredible minds still work there

Cons

too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Too much change, not focused. Current environment has bred insecurity. Unrealistic territory sizes.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your act together. You're losing talented people because you can find a direction.

Pros

In the Research realm, the resources and scientific capabilties were extraordinary. At the La Jolla site, the legacy of scientific integrity survived for a number of years beyond the acquisition by Pfizer but suffered in recent years.

Cons

The quality of the decision-making at the site governance and global leadership levels was abysmal. New strategies were paraded out with great fanfare and then abandoned within a year or two simply because a new guy took over at the top.

Advice to Senior Management

It's too late to recover - you've irreversible destroyed the value of the R&D enterprise at Pfizer.

Pros

Pfizer has a great pipeline of Quality medications and the base pay for field personnel is fair.

Cons

Pfizer is so large that it is difficult to find the person with answers to questions and find solutions to problems.
Pfizer is under the impression that since they are the largest that they are the best. There are a lot of small to mid-sized companies with very skilled employees whom are at least as competent as Pfizer employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Job redundancy is hurting Pfizer from the top down. Create silo business unites that are nimble and agile. Train field personnel, including DBMS and State Directors to manage time effectively. Train District Managers to focus on face-to-face selling skills and reduce busy work. The days of Pfizer's greatness are over. Small companies are out-performing Pfizer. Physicians are tired of Pfizer's ego. "WHAT KILLS A SKUNK IS THE PUBLICITY OF ITSELF." ~Abraham Lincoln

Pros

People seem to be about the work, I don't find too many prima donnas

Cons

Has become so big it cant get out of its own way. It sometimes feels like process is more important than the objective of developing lifesaving medicines.

Pros

big company
good work life balance
flexibility
educated colleagues

Cons

i had no supervisor to speak of
lots of "self-preservation"/ verbal inflation of workload
individual tied into small niche of work
lots of meaningless deptmt initiatives
cliques which largely determine upward mobility
too much focus on very advanced degrees
much less concern/value/development for junior staff

Advice to Senior Management

start being real leaders and investing in appropriate communication/development/satisfaction of all your staff, rather than patting your friends on the back and focusing solely on degrees and personal factors.

Pros

I work from home so job flexibility is huge. Also, the benefits are good with company including car, expenses, health benefits, etc. (although these have all gotten worse in the past couple of years). Pfizer as a company isn't going away.

Cons

Ever tightening legal and regulatory changes make the job challenging. I would say the biggest downside right now is job security.

Pros

management is very understanding for to get the employee their balance between personal life and work life. It is an overall relaxing work environment.

Cons

very limited space for advancement. The company has undergo too much reorganization in the past few years and made it difficult to adapt.

Advice to Senior Management

we need to stop changing and reorganizing the group. Employee feels that there are too many changes in the near past and we do not have a clear view what the company would be.

Pros

Large, diverse multinational company with excellent benefits package. New York headquarters is full of international colleagues and very stimulating at all times.

Cons

Company faces revenue challenges with loss of patent exclusivity for key products. Frequent changes in structure require adaptability. Repeated takeovers of other large companies (Warner Lambert, Pharmacia, Wyeth) meant frequent staff reductions.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower the divisional leaders to make decisions and reduce the time spent going up the ladder for approval. Reducing HQ time spent in lengthy meetings.