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Catalent Pharma reviews

2.8

36% would recommend to a friend

(2,467 total reviews)
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Alessandro Maselli

31% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Catalent Pharma has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,467 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Catalent Pharma employee rating is 20% below average for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jul 6, 2023

Management needs to be reevaluated

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good vacation package and benefits

Cons

Management needs to be reevaluated. They claim to be patient first but the last year has proven otherwise. They are more concerned with their stakeholders than they are about their clients or their employees. They need to update their mission statement because the current one is a joke. Upper management especially Anibal and Sunil are degrading to employees. They do not listen, interrupt, and talk over their employees all the time. Every single person is burnt out and there seems to be no end in sight. The replies from Catalent in any of these reviews is the same copy and paste statement with absolutely no changes what so ever. The last minute layoffs and secretive actions have caused major distrust between employees and management. Employees have no trust at all in this company.

3.0
May 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As one of the major CROs in the pharmaceutical industry, Catalent has a broad base of services they offer, and as such, serves as a great place to get your foot in the door in the industry and learn the basics and the industry. Most people are eager to help teach. Equipment (for the most part) is well maintained. Opportunities for advancement exist if you're one of the few that can tolerate high-stress environments while producing high quality work. Vacation policy is generous to combat the much lower than industry average pay. Once you've been here about 2-3 years, do your best to get out and go find a different company to work for where you can use your talents to get a better work environment and paycheck (seriously).

Cons

The company views employees simply as revenue generators. They're termed as "head-count" and financial performance is scrutinized on a daily basis. There is minimal meaningful appreciation given to employees from anyone higher than direct supervisors. Expectations are that people shouldn't ever make mistakes, and unnecessary time is spent tracking and root causing *most* mistakes which are typically of the brain fart variety. Red-tape abounds, making many simple tasks take much longer than necessary. Safety department was over-bearing to point of being counter-productive while not really providing any additional improvement.

1.0
Dec 1, 2015

QA/QC

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I'm pretty sure most of the 4 or 5 star reviews are coming from Catalent HR to make the company seem more attractive. I may have my own bias from working there for six years, but NOBODY would describe Catalent as a "great place" if they were being g honest

Cons

Terrible management. Catalent doesn't like its managers to speak openly about bonuses, because they are only offered to mgmt. And they are relatively generous bonuses, all things considered, but non managers get NOTHING. The system is set up to provide enough incentive for managers to work rank and file employees like dogs, and when the fiscal year ends, and the money is getting divided up for bonuses and raises, managers actively work to minimize raises to employees, so there can be extra money to go towards mgmt bonuses. Its a very ugly system, creates a terrible divide between mgmt and employees.

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