AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,930 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 7,930 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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8K reviews
4.0
Oct 10, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

On the whole, AstraZeneca has great people. There are a lot of smart people, particularly in R&D, who know their jobs and actually like working *with* other people. If you're interested in healthcare or scientific research, want a seriously challenging career and are among the best at what you do, AZ is a good place to spend your time... AZ also takes work/life balance seriously. So if you have a family, whether that's children or parents or siblings, AZ management tends to be sympathetic to those needs.

Cons

A more complex web of matrix management you won't find outside of a government bureaucracy. This provides a huge cost in speed of decision making and in accountability. Giant patent cliff is coming. Heavy reliance on outsourcing (though this has good points, as well as bad).

5.0
Sep 28, 2012

Very good, opportunuities to develop new skills

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working in a small site (<150 employees), friendship environment; very good collaboration between employees; knowledgeable and trustable local managers; various stimulating interactions with public laboratories (i.e. McGill Pain Centre) and others world wide AZ sites.

Cons

As a big company, a business purpose doesn’t fit always the scientific goals in R&D, especially regarding timeline restriction. Our projects are mostly depending of high level executive managers, which also depend of investors, and in this period of restriction in pharmaceutic, R&D is suffering a lot that could have a big impact on the long term.

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