Great Experience. Poor career development. Widespread cost-cutting makes job bad. - Pharmaceuticals Sales Representative Pfizer Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues who are fun to work with and make day to day business fun. Managers are hit and miss. Some are fantastic and are enjoyable to work for, others are the complete opposite.

Cons

Managers are all talk and no action. There is a lot of talk and online development for your career however at the end of the day, career progression is at the discretion of your manager, who may veto any development or promotion based on what is best for them. Another issue is staff satisfaction. With recent changes to the business including widespread cost cutting measures, staff are very dissatisfied with Pfizer and how difficult and unenjoyable the job has become.

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Cons

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Cons

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