AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,983 total reviews)
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Pascal Soriot

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

AstraZeneca has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,983 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AstraZeneca employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Mar 6, 2015
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Pros

Really open culture with quite a flat hierarchy. People generally want to do the right thing and while the ways of working can be long and boring, at least there are processes that are mostly being adhered to. The top leadership is very good (Soriot really turned it around) and there was a clear direction for this company which was clearly communicated to staff. Also nice that the employee survey results are actually acted upon. The values at AZ seemed to me to be more than just meaningless words on paper.

Cons

While I was around, resources were so tightly squeezed that I was working flat out and could barely keep my head above water with work.It started to make me ill. The management had taken on a load more work and hadn't recruited more staff to keep up. We were expected for months to soldier on and also make improvements.

2.0
Mar 6, 2015

Always transitioning

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the people at the astrazeneca/ amylin site was great and very easy to work with

Cons

Being in a transitional company, from Amylin to BMS to Astrazeneca, room for personal development was not there as the group was in an ongoing company transition.

4.0
Mar 5, 2015

Review

Anonymous employee
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Pros

People are nice and good benefits

Cons

Pipeline is not doing well. Too much money spent on restructuring

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