Disruption not welcome - Senior Project Manager AstraZeneca Employee Review

1.0
Apr 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are very good Hours are flexible (although the company approaches COVID with a tough policy stance, managers do not enforce on-site working)

Cons

- Extremely risk averse, without a good way to measure risk. You end up with a company petrified of doing anything even slightly different - Team members will not execute their tasks if they are not written in an SOP. Outside-the-box thinking is encouraged, but ideas are never enacted because they deviate from the SOP. - Managers have no clue how to manage. They are good at science and they attend plenty of "how to be a good leader" seminars, but they do not understand how to relate to or manage people. There is zero performance management (either up or out) - The company lives off of corporate buzz topics (i.e. lean, D/I) but does not know how to execute them. More time is spent in lean meetings to solve a 5 minute problem than will ever be recouped by the gains of solving that 5 minute problem

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5.0
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Pros

Robust pipeline that leads to numerous job opps

Cons

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4.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, work life balance

Cons

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