AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,959 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 7,959 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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8K reviews
3.0
Jul 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and salary; large company with many opportunities for changing career path, department, or location; nice campus with great facilities (fitness center, cafe).

Cons

Numerous reorganizations resulting in layoffs over the last 10 years; lack of consistent long-term strategy; political/bureaucratic environment; lack of work/life balance.

1.0
May 13, 2017

Director

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation and benefits are good.

Cons

This company is sinking fast. They employ and promote the incompetent and ignore anyone who wants to make improvements or even suggests that something could be done more efficiently or more streamlined. Everything takes 10 times longer than it needs to due to restrictive, antiquated policies and constant turn-over and re-creating the wheel. They have no concept of what it really is like to care for patients and do not utilize the expertise of either external or internal collaborators. The culture is not at all nurturing and is down right adversarial and punitive to those who are new and not part of the dead wood that continues to implement non-sensical restrictions through repeated useless meetings that go nowhere except backwards. Stay away from this company.

3.0
May 1, 2017

2nd shift

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working the night shift means you are exposed to less politics so it is less stressful and has overtime pay plus differential

Cons

Reporting of time has recently changed to reduce overtime pay but hours have not. Essentially you are getting less for the same amount of work. Many people have left the company for this reason alone.

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