Pfizer Reviews in Connecticut

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great team, co-workers; sense of empowerment

Cons – Once they started outsourcing, they went wild - staff became disengaged, lost vested interest, always fearful for their job. Philosophy of the company completely changed.

Advice to Senior Management – Remember - value your staff - they are the ones that enable you to succeed as a manager. To upper management - don't forget your roots. Once you get too far removed, it is easy to forget what it takes to do the job. It is easy to spout out directives and unreasonable timelines, but if you forget to involve the function in these decisions, you will never have successful results or a productive staff.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits, pay, nothing else, nothing else, nothing else (had to enter 5 pros)

Cons – Political atmosphere, unbearable bureaucracy, best talent continues to leave, ready-fire-aim business strategy, decisions based on leaders personal interests and never around making best science decisions or even decisions in best benefit of company

Advice to Senior Management – Fire yourselves and allow scientists to make decisions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great pay and benefits working at Pfizer

Cons – They give to many jobs out to other countries

Advice to Senior Management – Try to keep more jobs in the USA

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – This company treats high performers well, and still offers a good benefits package along with educational assistance. The company is innovating in some areas, and is constantly looking to redefine itself in response to the changing industry.

Cons – Staff reductions have placed ever-increasing amounts of work on fewer and fewer employees. Guidance by senior management seems short-sighted, and an unsustainable level of pressure has been placed on the staff to cut costs and increase production.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your staff. They are your most valuable asset.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – People generally good to wirk with (some exceptions)
Salary

Cons – organization shake-up = job uncertainty
Performance Management

Advice to Senior Management – No more acquisitions!
Nurture home grown science as in the 1990's ealry 2000's.
Selling profitable businesses does not make since. Consumer Health flip-flopping?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Very flexible work enviroment. Great place to work. Good benefits and salary. great opportunities to excel in your career.

Cons – Too many organizational changes at too many times. By time you settle in the direction that the orgaination is going, changes happen again.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The pay and benefits are the absolute best in the area. Like any large, multinational company experiences will vary with department and direct supervisor. The experience of working here really IS what one makes of it.

Cons – Pfizer is a large company, and change comes slowly. Often when change does come, it's the result of the work of a large committee of various departments and the change does not always make sense.

If you enjoy working in a scrappy environment, or working to move a company toward #1, look elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management – Sometimes you just have to make a decision.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer

Pros – Excellent scientists, resources and benefits

Cons – The expansions did not bring a positive outcome. No Lessons learned

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer

Pros – Generous compensation and benefits, at least as of now (although benefits and compensation are being curtailed). Some talented co-workers and top notch scientists but most of the top talent is leaving because of recent changes.

Cons – No clear direction from Sr. Management. A chaotic environment where urgent projects are cancelled without notice, sites are closed and colleagues relocated yearly, years of work are discarded and each wave of re-organization lowers morale further. Positions are often created, filled and then eliminated within a 6-10 month time frame. Pfizer has a long history of hiring people into sites that close within a week of their start date. The leadership has proven time and again to be completely untrustworthy. Whatever they say, believe the opposite. Beware working for this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Read Demming's book "Out of the Crisis" and understand that the current state of Pfizer has little to do with the scientists within R&D and everything to do with the management of R&D. Despite their culpability, the actual management is essentially intact (in fact I'd wager that R&D has move VPs than ever) and cost cutting has been achieved by eliminating the scientists the create value for the organization and its intellectual property. I know of no VP that has created any new value, they only evaluate the value generated by someone else. There is now a mismatch; those who manage value (evaluate it) now outnumber those who create value. It's akin to a factory that has more inspectors than line workers and machinery. Only a few number of products come off the assembly line, but those that do are scrutinized by an army of inspectors who are compensated and rewarded for finding faults. When the business owners complain about the lack of productivity, the inspectors eliminate more line workers and machinery making the problem worse. As such, initiatives like ESI are likely doomed to failure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer

Pros – pay, projects, cafeteria, parking, coffee bars

Cons – culture, career development, people management, lack of leadership

Advice to Senior Management – hire people managers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend