Good Benefits, not much else - Senior Architecture Lead AstraZeneca Employee Review

2.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, competitive pay Company cares about work/life balance The new leadership (C level at the very top) seems to care, and is enthusiastic

Cons

A constant cycle or re-organzations have left the IS/IT workforce jaded and demoralized. Morever, over-reliance on outsourcing have decimated critical IT capabilities (but not surprisingly, the politically astute bureacrats continue to survive and prosper in such re-orgs). That along with the mind-numbing bureacracy and a cornucopia of outsourced service providers, has ensured that that the more skilled and creative employees have either left, or volunteered for redundancy. The only people who are really interested is sticking around now are those with big pensions waiting at the end of the line.

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