Baffling experience with poor leadership
Pros
A nice office in NYC and the people are mostly kind. Very smart co-workers and generally good WLB.
Cons
Leadership (at the ELT level) is terrible. They guided the company’s decisions into bad performance resulting in mass layoffs but they seem tone deaf each time they discuss it. They have zero sense of accountability and I would not trust them to keep this company stable without a full blown pandemic driving demand for Covid products. Dont expect any helpful form of onboarding to the company. You’re handed a laptop, an “onboarding buddy” which is typically a person on your team who is too swamped to actually do that role for you, and then a deluge of work is thrown at you right away. It’s very sink or swim in the first couple of weeks. Return to office has been a complete mess. They list 2-3 days on job descriptions but the truth is it’s 2.5 days over a 6-week average. Meaning if you do 2 days one week, you have to do 3 the next. That’s fine until you take time off and that PTO affects your badge swipes with no way to track that you were away on PTO. Taking a week vacation can easily result in you missing your 2.5 average and ending up on a list with HR. Also, there’s no way to track your time off at Pfizer but for some reason you can “buy more vacation” during open enrollment. Good luck convincing your manager you bought an extra week with no site or system to point to. I find Pfizer to be highly disorganized and poorly led but there definitely worse places to work overall. I would not trust my career here with the current leadership that’s in place.
