Low Morale - Principal Scientist Pfizer Employee Review

3.0
Jul 31, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent people. Excellent resources. Good benefits (but are getting cut). Generally work/life balance is good.

Cons

After a decade of constant layoffs, morale is terrible. You can feel like the axe can fall at any time. Pfizer is too quick to go to layoffs without assessing the portfolio needs a few years out. Too driven by accountants and the immediate financials instead of playing the long game. The delayering from a few years ago created very little room for moving up the corporate latter. The annual news is always to do more with fewer resources. In the almost decade of work, I never got anything more than a 3% annual pay raise despite always getting solid to excellent annual reviews.

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Pros

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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

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