Sanofi Pasteur Reviews

Pros

Rewarding job, still have some decent benefits, speciality vaccines keep the company in business and you working, close to home

Cons

Recent changes made to stay competitive has lowered morale and eliminated some benefits. You have to tell yourself that you are one of the lucky ones to have a job weekly.

Advice to Senior Management

Outsource the entire IS dept. Never in my 30 years in the business have I seen a support group that ignores their customers needs and answers to Global and local IS goals and objectives.

Pros

Flexible schedules, benefits, campus atmosphere

Cons

Lack of communication between departments. Logic seems to have been pushed to the side with some decisions that are made.

Pros

It's nice to know you're making vaccines that have real medicinal value. 9+ weeks of vacation in France, good pay, nice location (Lyon), somewhat international company.

Cons

Dysfunctional support functions (such as IT and HR). Smug attitude of many employees and many people pretending to be busy when they are not. Real problem with useless time-consuming meetings.

Advice to Senior Management

Overhaul or outsource the support functions.

Pros

If you are looking for a pay check ...go place to work....long term career advancement - negative

Cons

Skills level of management team is low....management is more interesting in looks...good old boy network in engineering!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the good old boys network, look at your talent and develop people....poor development of people....stop the blame game

Pros

Very talented people within IS at Sanofi
Salary is OK
Technology in the company is incredible

Cons

Unless you can get in directly with sanofi, there is ZERO chance to advance.

Advice to Senior Management

Give up and stop being so shady

Pros

vacation package is great; beautiful campus

Cons

pay is on the lower end of industry standard; company is extremely hierarchical, people are pigeon holed in 1 specific role and spend the rest of their lives there

Pros

Large company, good resources, benefits aren't bad, vacation time is great.
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Cons

Lot of "lifers" so hard to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

good benefits and pay, great products

Cons

upper management out of touch

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to lower level employees

Pros

Salary is good for the area. Also, employees are great to work with. That's about all the pros I can come up with.

Cons

Managers lack any experience to gain respect and do not understand how to effectively manage people, sitting behind a computer all day, cursing does gain the respect of employees. Management gives new meaning to the words micro management.

Advice to Senior Management

Start looking at employees as people, who can contribute to the future not just as numbers. Good employees will not tolerate being swept under the carpet, they will just move on to other companies.

Pros

-Very good pay
-great boss and colleages
-good benefits
-clean, well stocked labs with lots of money to purchase commercial kits which makes lab work a lot more effort-saving, with less frustration
-Pride in working for the largest company dedicated to vaccines

Cons

-work can be repetitive (smiliar experiments for weeks/years)
-can be difficult to advance

Advice to Senior Management

-great company, really a pleasure to work for you guys