Pros

Great pay and benefits.
Working for a widely recognized company.
Great amount of vacation time for new employees and a good amount of paid holidays.

Cons

Continual upheaval as a result of continual mergers & buyouts and downsizing.
Living in southeast CT.
Slow promotion process for high performing employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Pfizer leadership should consider letting employees work remotely. Many employees will leave Pfizer when they get the opportunity for employment elsewhere just to get out of southeast Connecticut. Southeast Connecticut has a high cost of living which is not justified by the mediocre quality of life that the area provides.

Pros

Alot of resources and money, and mature people. Potential for growth is there. I recently just got to go to France for a conference. That was great.

Cons

Too much hierarchy and bureaucracy. Too many layoffs after working there for 2 years. Short-term employment is good but you can never count on long-term employment. The senior leadership needs to go because they are pretty stupid people. Stupid leaders result in hiring unproductive people.

I can't believe that target discovery just got implemented in 2009 when every company has already for years. We barely are looking into genetically engineered mouse models when it has been used everywhere else for years. Pfizer is behind in technology.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to go.

Pros

Good benefits-for now... Get an opportunity to work with some really competent people, and get to work with people from the other side of the fence as well...

Cons

- Production workers afraid to report injuries because of risk of losing job, in spite of Pfizer's rants about an open policy.
- Company won't allow any current Pfizer employee to give a job reference to departed employees, they can be fired for it. Yet Pfizer requires incoming job candidates to provide references from previous employers.....
-Constant bickering, turf protection and silo behaviors within and between departments, divisions, and sites.
-No real integration between Pfizer and the companies it has acquired, other than gutting them out and dismissing as many of the 'outsiders' as possible.
-Globalization of the business will continue to decrease stateside opportunities in the future. Don't plan on staying there.

Advice to Senior Management

Why bother, they have seen the negative results of their self administered company-wide Gallup Poll over the past two years and have made no real changes other than planning to do away with the Gallup Poll.

Pros

Great competent people, enjoyable work, great benefits, good work/life balance, remaining remnant of old UpJohn culture refreshing, good vacation package

Cons

Constantly cutting people, never feel secure in job, workload becoming more overwhelming with each additional wave of people cut, corporate micromanages sites

Advice to Senior Management

People at Pfizer are outstanding, let them do their job, minimize the role of corporate and let the sites function more autonomously

Pros

While working as a contractor at Pfizer, I have had the opportunity to get involved in many aspects of the projects I have been involved. I have had the opportunity to be a team player where my input was saught at the tactical and strategic level. The teams I worked with both Pfizer and other contractors were easy to work with and allowed me the freedom to my job without interference.

Cons

Probably the biggest con is the fact that Pfizer has a policy where contractors have to roll off the books after a year. Although tools such as requirements management were lacking, I was afforded the opportunity to develop a tool to support the requirements efforts.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep your good contractors around when they are doing excellent work.

Pros

Passionate to be a part of an organization that is making a major difference in providing drugs that help with patient's lives, health and well-being around the world.

Cons

The organization is too large and is finding a hard time with finding blockbuster drugs to compensate for the patent loses that have impacted the company's sales and led to initiatives that downsize, right-size, and/or outsource groups/functions to reduce costs globally. Unstable environment to work in with all of the mergers and consolidation.

Advice to Senior Management

Be able to minimize unnecessary costs by becoming Lean within the organization, increase revenue with new discoveries or acquisitions, and keep key individuals within the organization while trying to go through mergers and consolidations.

Pros

Great benefits
Discounted cafeteria
In house gym
Don't have to take work home with you
Decent hours
Management does have some concern for your personal life

Cons

Hard to advance within the company if you do not have a graduate degree.
The work can sometimes be less than challenging.
Lots of hurdles to jump to get things approved.
With so many employees, you can feel a bit like a cog in a machine.

Advice to Senior Management

It's important to take into consideration more than what an employee looks like on paper. Judge an employee for advancement based on past performance and ability to deal with others as a larger percentage of the mix when determining whether to promote them.

Pros

Great benefits and work life balance.

Cons

Senior Management is out of touch with what is going on in the field. Became very clear that they cut senior people to cut costs during the reorganization and it sems are still operating in that fashion.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the representatives and customers(Doctors,pharmacists) in the field. HQ seems to think because they have MBA after their name that they know it all.

Pros

Great benefits, free Rx drugs, tuition reimbursement, flexible schedules

Cons

stock options are wortheless, medical sales is frustrating no matter what company you work for

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up to the reality of the healthcare field today and run the business accordingly.

Pros

The benefits and pay. At least they used to pay well before they went to all Jr. employees and offshored everything.

Cons

The company has become too large too fast. The CEO is not research-minded or knowledgeable about the business. He destroyed Boston Market, and will do the same to Pfizer. All of the Sr. staff is being sent out the door to cut costs, and much of the initial research industrywide is being done abroad and in the East - with many errors.

Advice to Senior Management

Put scientists back at the helm. Stop cutting costs to pad your pockets. This is an expensive business. Spend the money to do it right, or go home and let someone else do it better.