Pfizer Reviews in Connecticut

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer as a contractor for more than 8 years

Pros – The people chosen for my team were almost entirely apolitical, technically excellent, and focused on the goals of the project. Almost every technical meeting we had, someone would bring the question(s) with which we were wrangling back to "...so how does this benefit the customer?" Our manager was very smart, very savvy at working the organization above him, and took completely to heart the managers' job of being an umbrella for everything that "rolls downhill," so as to keep the team focused and motivated. A dream team.

Cons – The team has since been disbanded, and while the project has been moved into "Maintenance Mode," it is still being rolled out to new locations. Sponsor and manager were let go, most of the team members have either left the company or are in new roles over which they are far less satisfied.

Advice to Senior Management – Bespoke software can, in fact, be a competitive advantage.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time for more than a year

Pros – high salary and good condition

Cons – no position and always lay off people

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 10 years

Pros – People, venue, culture, benefits, career paths, opportunities, inclusiveness, open door policy, minority hiring practices, flexibility, salary competitiveness, personal development opportunities.

Cons – Fear implications of constant change (potential job loss, site closures, mergers, downsizing, belt tightening, doing more with less, disparity between executive salary % increases vs. rest of company employees, offshoring. etc, etc, etc).

Advice to Senior Management – What happened to rewarding employees for a job well done? In 2013, stock price goes up, pay for performance goes way down. This is not an incentive for future personal sacrifice.

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 10 years

Pros – Great experience in the past. Good salaries and benefits. Plenty of ability to learn. Ask and you shall receive as long as it is not upwards.

Cons – too much change is choking everyone. Bureaucracy is killing innovation. its easier to get $1m for a project than it is to get $1k. Still are not used to real world budgets and still think bigger is better.

Advice to Senior Management – Split the company and free the managers to make choices. Everyone is running scared and not willing to take chances.

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 as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – It was nice to be able to connect with people across several industries. In my position, I wasn't required to work every weekend.

Cons – Unstable work environment. Most people within the company, (at most locations,) know that they are in constant danger of being laid off. I was asked to leave a stable job to work at Pfizer, so I made a point to ask during the interview stage if my position was secure. I was told it was, though I found out 2 weeks after starting that it wasn't, then was laid off a year later.

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

Current Employee – been working at Pfizer full-time

Pros – Teamwork, values, culture, good work life balance

Cons – Still not always easy to get work done, and sometimes senior management don't understand what's going on

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pfizer full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Wonderful co-workers, terrific work environment, exciting projects with stimulating team members made working at Pfizer in Groton/New London and in NYC an absolute pleasure. Good salary and benefits.

Cons – Very little room for career development or advancement; constant acquisitions and reorganisations accompanied by large numbers of lay-offs lowered morale in recent years. Pfizer is now no longer the blue ribbon company it used to be and employees are starting to walk away.

Advice to Senior Management – Get back to basics and listen to the people on the ground working at the "Coal Face". Pfizer teams working in drug development and with the FDA know what is required to succeed. Outsourcing this work and reducing Pfizer headcount may well, in the short term, cut costs, however the medium to long term risks of a fully outsourced drug development model could be a real concern, especially for a company who is already working under an FDA warning notice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Ability to obtain great experience across many facets of work.

Cons – Budget constraints has made getting things done difficult

Advice to Senior Management – Don't cater to investors, you still need to develop drugs

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

Pros – You get to work with some pretty smart folks from a variety of backgrounds. Being one of the larger employers in the area, you're not necessarily confined to a small group of folks around the water cooler and in some areas drama is at a minimum.

Cons – It used to be a place where one could work their way up the ladder. That is not the case anymore. Most movement is lateral at best. As a large employer, you're a number. If you can live with that, you'll do well here.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop focusing on being number one and start focusing at being good at research again.

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 a year

Pros – Ability to work from home and travel is still supported. There is cohesion among treatment programs as this is necessary to keep the program consistent.

Cons – Very unorganized, unsupportive, stressful. Processes, documentation, standards, templates, etc. constantly change and you're required to continually go back and review the same documentation over and over instead of going forward from the time of the change. Most studies are long-term and you are responsible to address documents from colleagues who preceded you on the study, many of whom no longer work there. This happens every couple weeks. VERY stressful, demanding, and time-consuming.

Advice to Senior Management – Look more closely at individual workloads and work / life balance for sake of employee health, productivity and quality. Also, leave processes, etc in place for more than 5 minutes as constantly reinventing the wheel is an unproductive waste of time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend