AstraZeneca reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,931 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 7,931 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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3.0
Jan 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I’ve worked in AZ over 2 years. At the beginning the office, salary, benefits and the policy of treating employees made me feel I was in a story tale. Coworkers were fantastic and super friendly (at least in the first team I worked). Unfortunately, after few months my rose-colored glasses fell to the ground with a thud when I realised how toxic environment I needed to work in.

Cons

The worst management I experienced in my several years of career as a data analyst. During these 2 years I had two team managers, both same horrible, inhuman, unprofessional, unsupportive, pushy, without any experience in people management, using micromanagement, pushing you under a moving bus in critical situations, leading you directly to the depression and panic attacks. Under their fake smile there was a lot of rudeness and selfishness. Higher management knowing what was going on did nothing to improve the situation. The rotation was the highest I’ve ever seen in both teams. Additionally, the company pays in Poland around 80% of market median and have unpaid overtime, so my disappointment was really huge. Be also prepared that the new joiners can get even 1,2-2k pln more than you on the same position for some time.

4.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great salary, perks, colleagues, work environment, location. My line and departmental managers are keen to listen to problems, and are overall supportive

Cons

The senior management team have their head in the clouds, demanding faster and faster deliveries without any knowledge of what they are asking for. This is leading to less and less work being done on each project to get it into clinical trials and using resources in a very inefficient way to deliver bad chemistry and bad control strategy to set up a project to either fail or make the rest of development a stressful series of firefighting to fix what we should have been given time to develop before a candidate reaches the clinic. Its stupid and is being driven by the desire to satisfy shareholders rather than science

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