Does AstraZeneca pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, AstraZeneca employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at AstraZeneca. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at AstraZeneca?

79% of AstraZeneca employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated AstraZeneca 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at AstraZeneca?

Senior Scientist (261) , Director (178) , Associate Director (171) , Sales Representative (164) , Scientist (144) , Intern (125) , Project Manager (119) , Business Analyst (96) , Manager (96) , Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist (88) , Medical Science Liaison (MSL) (85) , Consultant (82) , Senior Consultant (82) , Analyst (70) , Engineer (68)

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

"Good benefits through a benefit fund including private healthcare and pension" ((in 777 reviews)); "Good work life balance and working hours are flexible" ((in 629 reviews)); "Great work envirnment and people to work with!" ((in 494 reviews)); "There is a great culture in Canada and globally we have an exciting pipeline of products that is coming" ((in 450 reviews)); "Good pay and ambient good" ((in 291 reviews))

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

"Direct line management was poor in some cases." ((in 236 reviews)); "This leaves lots of employees adrift while the ones lucky enough to have a good manager thrive." ((in 147 reviews)); "Leadership is poor and not direct." ((in 117 reviews)); "No career progression unless top earner" ((in 69 reviews)); "Not much opportunity to grow , awful upper management" ((in 50 reviews))

What are employees saying about AstraZeneca layoffs in 2026?

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

Skip to content Skip to footer

Notifications

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,958 total reviews)

Pascal Soriot

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Culture & values

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

AstraZeneca has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,958 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AstraZeneca employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

Ratings by demographic groups

Race / Ethnicity

Gender

Sexual orientation

Disability

Parent or family caregiver

Veteran status

Reviews by job title

8K reviews

2.0

Jan 7, 2014

18 years of ideal followed by 3 years of failure

Senior scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Perfect work setting. Great work life balance and the opportunity to work with truly inspiring people. A great place to continually learn at the cutting edge of science.

Cons

High level miss managent of the company following the merger. Wrong behaviours adopted and encouraged. The tail wags the dog far too often.

4.0

Oct 24, 2013

MedImmune can be challenging

Scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

MedImmune is part a giant of a company with entrepreneurial spirit. It's like having a blank check to develop products for a small company. Therefore there's a lot of different things to work on. Lots of things to be exposed to, a lot of great scientist to work with. Lots of exciting things to look forward to.

Cons

MedImmune is working to get out from under the cloud. Despite the rain, the pace hadn't slowed down. You really need to dry yourself off and really hit the ground hard. It's very competitive, which makes it hard to climb ladders without a PhD

3.0

Aug 13, 2013

Great opportunities for development in R&D but lack of directions for future

Clinical development manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

If you are working in R&D there are plenty opportunities to progress in your carrier. Apart from that I would ass to pros: atmosphere within the local team, fair salaries, understanding from the management that each employee need to maintain work-private life balance

Cons

Constant changes without investigating/confirming whether previously implemented improvement have started to work. Pure communication across functions in R&D. An attitude towards new eployees that everybody needs to gain his/her own experience without sharing information how a particular task can be done effciently; as there are no procedures understood as workflow for required activities to be completed in order to meet any milestone it makes a work of the team unefficient. Rein ytear structurization in R&D causing that in year or two there will be nobody to seek for lessons learnt

Viewing 460 - 462 of 7,958 Reviews

Top companies for "Compensation and Benefits" near you

Servier

3.9★Compensation & Benefits

The Gurus

5.0★Compensation & Benefits

Jobs at AstraZeneca

Brand Manager – Respiratory (Asthma & CRSwNP) (m/w/d)

Wien

View job

Country President - Austria

Wien

View job