AstraZeneca Employee Reviews about "benefit"

Cons

Does not seem to care about work-life balance of employees. Back in January they created a new 24/7 schedule but it doesn't work well for those on night shift. You will either be working every holiday or every Fri night. Recently they have been bringing in more people from the outside as opposed to hiring from within. This has made it more difficult to change departments.

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Has some issues similar to other large organisations in that multiple functions compete, sometimes work in silos although this is improving now. Not always co-ordinated in how projects start up, this can make it very lengthy when a lot of people get involved.

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The environment you experience depends heavily on the team for which you work. For example, favoritism sometimes exists on teams and new ideas are not always welcome.

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Compared to other multinational pharmaceutical companies they didn't use to have good salaries and benefits.

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Chronically under resourced with big ambitions Slow to make big decisions Constant reorganisations making more high level roles without considering scientists doing the work

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*horrible work life balance (despite great executives/benefits the average worker is always overwhelmed) *promotions mean nothing in R&D but more work: My promotion was a cut in pay (from working constant overtime to a salaried employee = you're doing a great job and we want to keep you, let's increase you're title, and take away you're overtime) *always a constant focus on upper management and how important they are. if you're below scientist II you are really just a number to medimmune * excessive stress and work load in R&D despite the effort to reduce this through better benefits. your workload will never decrease. *decisions are made on your behalf and your voice means nothing

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Management accountability needs to be transparent

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A company amongst the midst of massive changes worldwide. Feathers are ruffled, people are unhappy. The company needs to look at employees who do a fair bulk of the hard work and learn how to value them. Little to no value on PA's, despite the hours and work they have done, and continue to do despite being told there is no future for them at the company as they won't relocate them. Could benefit with a clear out of the dead wood now and not wait for natural waste to occur. They also need to make up their minds about the relocation, which is now accelerated to next summer, not summer 2015/2016, and have a little respect towards those they know they don't want to take.

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offer provided for ex-employees while re-hiring isn't good

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Global AZ can really complicate things for the local market but this is common in other multinational organizations. I would also say that the global organization is very sophisticated yet they lack rigour and can lack context for the local markets.