Is Pfizer a good company to work for?

Pfizer has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 12,055 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 69% of employees would recommend working at Pfizer to a friend and 49% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Pfizer have been left by employees working as Summer Student Worker , Summer Growth Experience Intern and Summer Intern .

Does Pfizer pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Pfizer employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Pfizer. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Pfizer?

69% of Pfizer employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Pfizer 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Pfizer?

Director (235) , Intern (206) , Manager (202) , Scientist (177) , Senior Scientist (163) , Sales Representative (162) , Senior Manager (138) , Associate Scientist (114) , Senior Associate Scientist (111) , Project Manager (95) , Principal Scientist (84) , Process Technician (84) , Process Engineer (75) , Internship (69) , Engineer (62)

What are the pros of working at Pfizer according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and very welcoming to others" ((in 1115 reviews)); "There are so many great people who work very hard and support each other." ((in 648 reviews)); "4. Good work life balance (My role had hybrid working model with 2 weekly offs)" ((in 454 reviews)); "Good pay if there's work available and you don't get sent home early." ((in 382 reviews)); "Great colleagues who are fun to work with and make day to day business fun." ((in 309 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Pfizer according to real employee reviews?

"poor management and lost of focus" ((in 274 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs and restructure." ((in 202 reviews)); "some manager are micro" ((in 120 reviews)); "Poor leadership has led to the ongoing demise of this company as reflected by our stock price." ((in 92 reviews)); "Long hours and highly demanding" ((in 90 reviews))

What are employees saying about Pfizer layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Pfizer layoffs and their outlook for job security at Pfizer in 2026.

What Pfizer locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Guayama , Terre Haute , Peapack and Gladstone , Charlotte , Cincinnati , North Andover , Houston , Orlando , Illinois City , Detroit

Pfizer reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(8,723 total reviews)

Albert Bourla

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

Pfizer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,723 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pfizer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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9K reviews

3.0

Aug 17, 2008

I beleive things will be better

Bt senior manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

A global corporation whith important challenges and the resources to find the solutions and growth. Pfizer supports innovation and creativity and also is trying to be as fast as a mid size company with out loosing its basic management controls. The internal resources are great, there is no reason to not do your job, Training, Knowledge, Support, Collaboartion, all is avaialble at Pfizer. Some Executive Directors are really role models, the vision and the mission of the company is thru and not only a sentence in a piece of paper. You can live the values. The company also beleive in its employees

Cons

the challenges do not have a solution yet (as far as we know) and all the time staff cuts are the solution to keep the numbers for Wall Street It is very difficult to grow inside Pfizer and when you finally do it, HR tries to give you a very small compensation

4.0

Aug 12, 2008

Ovarall satisfied - get to do what you want when you want

Manufacturing engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging work - you are largely in charge of your own destiny and can find interesting / challenging projects to fill your time with

Cons

Layoffs and plant closings make motivation difficult. Advancement is at the whim of management - sure this is always the case - but past a certain level it depends largely on what upper management thinks of you. If you are a contrarian or if you don't really care what management thinks of you, you need to think of another way to get recognized - and even then it probably won't work. "Yes men" rule.

4.0

Aug 11, 2008

The near future looks depressing

Cta

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The salary and benefits are very good. Most people here have their own offices which I think is great. From what I’ve seen in two years most people here are very professional. The management is overall good and fair. My peers and I get time off if we need to. I can say that most of us are not overloaded with work so far. There’s a lot of change and as difficult as it is the management seems to be doing a good job at handling it and driving the process forward. Another positive thing is that there are many positions here in the company. If one gets eliminated you can always get another one.

Cons

In the past two years there have been massive layoffs. We know that more are coming our way. Many job functions have been outsourced. We have a lot of contractors at this point. Important drug patents, like Lipitor, are expiring in a few years, we know this is bad. Nothing new and major is coming “down the pipeline” so I’m not sure how bright the future is looking. All this extensive uncertainty is rather difficult to deal with. I’ve seen many changes since I started here two years ago. The company is also drastically cutting its benefits and severance packages in the end of this year. I can’t even imagine how people that have been working here for more than a decade feel.

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