Good place to start your career - Anonymous employee Pfizer Employee Review

4.0
19 May 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pfizer has a strong learning environment for someone starting out in their career. If you find the right mentor, this could be an excellent opportunity to get ahead of the pack. They have excellent benefits all around.

Cons

I feel that biannual review process was not always the best - there tended to be a lot of "curve fitting" within an function/division rather than rating someone based on his/her accomplishments against goals and merits. With so many major M&As over the past decade (Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia, Wyeth, King), the company is still struggling to get all of the integration done.

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Cons

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