Great potential but a huge bureaucracy - Director Pfizer Employee Review

3.0
Sep 12, 2011
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Opportunity to work on curing cancer or diabetes or Alzheimer's Lots of smart, motivated people in the company Can learn about developing drugs in the real world Great individuals can make a difference here, have seen it happen

Cons

Seriously incompetent senior management With a company this big and bureaucratic, there are lots of people who are mediocre or worse Intense internal politics driving critical decisions, from corporate strategy down to your promotion

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Cons

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Pros

A good amount of remote monitoring, which depending on how you view can be a positive.

Cons

Changing systems and inconsistent standards are applied to people. There are many differing models that often muddy how you are supposed to do your job, especially when other staff members don't quite understand. How do you interface with the changing models? There tends to be a lot of blame and foisting of responsibilities. Sometimes you can become overburdened with a lot of work, where people do not respect your time and think that their tasks should take priority. It is possible to be contacted late at night with work to do and then be criticized the next day for not being able to keep up.

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