AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,922 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 7,922 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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2.0
Jul 26, 2012

AstraZeneca in a Death Spiral

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generous compensation and benefits, nice facilities, business-casual attire.

Cons

Successive rounds of layoffs offset only by new positions in China; recent product failures and weak pipeline including at MedImmune biotech arm; current near-ban on travel, relocations, hiring from the outside and use of outside consultants; timid, risk-averse management; in-bred, protect-each-other culture at the C-suite level.

1.0
Oct 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AstraZeneca offers a very competitive salary and great benefits. It was hard for me to leave the company because of this but the old saying is true "money doesn't buy happiness". Neither does good benefits.

Cons

I was so excited to be working for a major pharmaceutical firm. My excited quickly turned to dispair. I was miserable working at AstraZeneca. It is a highly competitive environment. Most of the people that I worked with there were backstabbing snobs. I did a great job but it never seemed to be enough. If you are not aligned with the right people you have no future and cannot advance or even get a raise. I wanted a job, not to get back into high school cliques. Communication from management was almost non-existent. There are too many levels of management. If you cannot play the office politics game you will not make it here.

1.0
Jul 7, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- pipeline in oncology is great - good base salary, benefits, and bonus is good

Cons

-recent restructure where elite club of senior managers have all been handed roles and promotions for which they are not qualified or experienced. But here it’s all about your sponsor not what you contribute! - 3 days office expectation still being enforced despite people leaving. AZ don’t care, you are just a number - Workload is relentless & it gets worse when your new manager has no experience in your function. So it’s a case of “ find a solution” or “ don’t come to me with problems, come with solutions” - HR are the cause of the toxic culture. Employees who want a promotion, know the easiest way is to grass up on a team member or their manager. Several great leaders in the UK team have been fired this way, where a team member shared their confidential messages with HR. HR love to swim in it! Very little positive role within the business. - UK country leadership talk a good game. In reality is a rather pale & male elite gang where they dish out promotions & play pure politics. - bullying and use of senior leaders such as “ this guy wants the slides by Monday 8am” leaves foot soldiers with no choice but to sacrifice their weekend - AZ feel that they own you and ur free time - Promotions only with a sponsor. No sponsor, no promotion at all! - Employees will do anything to get on the fast track route to promotion. Even if it means betrayal of another colleague. The UK affiliate has rewarded many for “ speak up” or throwing ur boss under the company minibus!!!

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