Pfizer Reviews

Pros

Flexible schedule and ability to work from home.

Cons

Moving to more of a contractor employment model as opposed to hiring direct employees.

Pros

Pfizer provides a great compensation and incentives package...I worked in IT - the core business strategies were definitely known.

Cons

A LOT of outsourcing...teams are no longer co-located - making much of the collaboration done in a virtual format..barely any budget allotted for IT...the company pipeline is not looking good...R&D was cut..

Pros

Invests into their student interns both financially with good pay and matching 401k. They pay according to the number of credits you have completed at University, so I was paid at a senior salary from the beginning. We were able to have security shuttle us to UCSD from work and back again so you didn't have to pay for an expensive parking permit. They had a little training program to show you how drugs are approved. They had a company store where you could buy Pfizer consumer products for cheap, but since then they have sold those to J&J. Greater location with Happy Hour every Friday with a good selection of beer, good pizza, wings, quesadilla.

Cons

If you work there long enough like any other job, you will start to have repetitive tasks, which can be alright given you are an intern who is there only part time. However, if you have a good boss they can help you use top of the line equipment to automate certain tasks. There is some decent mentorship of trying to do independent projects as well as normal job functions.

Advice to Senior Management

Interns can be a great human resource to develop from the beginning, but you have to make sure you place them with a good mentor who understands and can handle student/work-life balance issues. The mentor should also guide the student towards various opportunities in the company in order to retain the student upon graduation. Students can be incredibly innovative, but need guidance to harvest their positive can-do energy.

Pros

Work Life Balance
Colleagues are great to work with

Cons

Promotions often not based on merit

Advice to Senior Management

Objectivity is needed in promoting management

Pros

Good opportunity to grow and do different things.
Excellent people to work with who are committed to doing a good job.
Lots of opportunity to learn and doing new things.
No micro management, good mid level managers.

Cons

They are cutting deep and to the bone.
Lots of jobs are outsourced.
No more funding for new technologies and learning. Keep doing the same age old stuff.
Less people and more work pressure.
Facing huge budget cut due to loss of exclusively

Advice to Senior Management

Higher management is trying hard to save money but not able to communicate the ideas to the mid management and to the work force.

Pros

Overall Purpose
Reputation
Good comprehensive comp package

Cons

Selfish leadership
Ever changing organization
Poor team work

Pros

Decent benefits package, upward mobility exists, good salary rate, a large variety of potential jobs, and internal mobility across disciplines.

Cons

Pfizer's been hitting a rough patch since the end of Lipitor, so the sense of job security is not the greatest. It's a relatively bureaucratic corporation, so you'll have to deal with the politics of something that size.

Pros

benefits, 401 k my manager was good

Cons

poor communiction lack of trust of people

Advice to Senior Management

behonest and inclusive to your people

Pros

Pfizer is a good place to grow.

Cons

Constant Reorganization within Pfizer. Makes staying at one job hard.

Pros

Good reputation
Decent Benefits
Interesting programs to help employees grow

Cons

Everyone seems like a clone
Diversity does not seem to be a priority
Too big... hard to shine as a top performer

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people and VALUE their feedback. Recognize top performers at all levels. Streamline communication efforts.