Does Takeda Pharmaceuticals pay their employees well?

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

How satisfied are employees working at Takeda Pharmaceuticals?

72% of Takeda Pharmaceuticals employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Takeda Pharmaceuticals 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Takeda Pharmaceuticals?

Sales Representative (121) , Associate Director (109) , Director (101) , Manager (76) , Intern (68) , Project Manager (53) , Estagiário (44) , Senior Sales Representative (44) , Senior Manager (41) , Scientist (40) , Manufacturing Technician (33) , Senior Scientist (32) , Quality Assurance (31) , Engineer (30) , Manufacturing Associate (30)

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

"The benefits were good and reasonably priced." ((in 451 reviews)); "Great culture and puts patients first" ((in 276 reviews)); "The people at Takeda are generally great and we have always had pretty solid departmental budgets." ((in 267 reviews)); "Work life balance is good" ((in 197 reviews)); "Good company and values and pay" ((in 158 reviews))

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

"The Management is poor and is constantly pushing us for numbers and not caring about the people working getting them those numbers." ((in 163 reviews)); "Poor leadership and managment of employees" ((in 76 reviews)); "Be prepared for frequent layoffs." ((in 62 reviews)); "Manager was terrible and she insisted on micromanaging everything." ((in 58 reviews)); "Poor upper management that micro manages" ((in 48 reviews))

What are employees saying about Takeda Pharmaceuticals layoffs in 2026?

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

Takeda Pharmaceuticals reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,581 total reviews)

Christophe Weber

66% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

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Takeda Pharmaceuticals has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,581 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Takeda Pharmaceuticals employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

4K reviews

1.0

Dec 8, 2018

Not a good place to work

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is OK. Health insurance is high deductible with HSA.

Cons

Open office environment. No privacy. You can see and hear everything and everyone. The company runs a lean model and piles everyone with tons of work. Serials reorganizations. Everything is outsourced to CROs.

4.0

Aug 20, 2018

American - Japanese Big Pharma

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good corporate culture, mostly nice people. There are a wide spectrum of people with differing levels of competencies, but in general, I have not met any truly unreasonable or nasty people here. The environment is full of people who are trying to their best in a vortex of inexplicable constant change and self induced bureaucratic inefficiencies. Recently, number of perks has been reduced due to financial cost cutting, but it is still one of the most decent places to work, in my 20 year biotech experience. It may be a good stepping stone to other opportunities in the Boston area.

Cons

Undergoing constant drastic change, inexplicable upheavals, large company inefficiencies. These problems are endemic to all big companies, but at Takeda, it is aggravated due to Japan / US dichotomies in cultural outlooks. Currently (2018) company is driven by Western leadership that buy into the (necessary?) notion of relentless lay-offs, site closures and wholesale centralization to Boston / Cambridge as the last hope for medical innovation.

1.0

Jun 27, 2018

No fair treatment, integrity, fairness and trust are the things only to show in the motto

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Hard working people, most at the lower level. Good science all around and you can actually gain a lot of knowledge and experience working along side good scientists

Cons

No fair treatment, politics, no growth opportunities, promotions gets turned down for no obvious reasons. High level leaders make decisions about others based on their own perception and guidance from their favorites.

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