AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,973 total reviews)
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Pascal Soriot

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

AstraZeneca has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,973 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).

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1.0
Apr 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are very good Hours are flexible (although the company approaches COVID with a tough policy stance, managers do not enforce on-site working)

Cons

- Extremely risk averse, without a good way to measure risk. You end up with a company petrified of doing anything even slightly different - Team members will not execute their tasks if they are not written in an SOP. Outside-the-box thinking is encouraged, but ideas are never enacted because they deviate from the SOP. - Managers have no clue how to manage. They are good at science and they attend plenty of "how to be a good leader" seminars, but they do not understand how to relate to or manage people. There is zero performance management (either up or out) - The company lives off of corporate buzz topics (i.e. lean, D/I) but does not know how to execute them. More time is spent in lean meetings to solve a 5 minute problem than will ever be recouped by the gains of solving that 5 minute problem

4.0
Apr 4, 2022

Good and bad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, work flexibility, interesting work, some good people.

Cons

You have to be a certain type of person, and fit a narrow definition of what good looks like to be successful.

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