AstraZeneca Employee Reviews about "career progression"
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(82 total reviews)
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Updated 28 Nov 2023
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Return to all Reviews- 4.08 Feb 2022Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Great people, nice environment, great benefits
Cons
Difficult for career progression for support staffs
- 5.018 May 2020Executive Medical RepresentativeCurrent Employee, more than 5 yearsJakarta
Pros
Work Life Balance, Good manager, Good relationship between employee and manager, good salary, good incentive, good medical benefits, good training
Cons
Career progression for Manager or Marketing Position
- 5.013 Nov 2020Senior ScientistCurrent EmployeeManchester, England
Pros
Focus on working for patients Good benefits and share options Support flexible working
Cons
Career progression can feel slow or pathways not always obvious
- 5.027 Aug 2016Process EngineerFormer Employee, more than 10 yearsBristol, England
Pros
Friendly place to work but with opportunities for career development and progression. Always good management.
Cons
Sad to see operations being scaled back in favour of outsourced manufacturing.
- 5.025 Jan 2023Finance LeadFormer EmployeeKuala Lumpur
Pros
Good benefits, great environment, people oriented
Cons
Limited career progression for higher career levels
- 4.016 Mar 2022Senior ScientistCurrent EmployeeManchester, England
Pros
- Bold and progressive sustainability ambitions - Working to shared core values, that underpin everything - Working with excellent colleagues and supportive teams to positively impact patients and make a difference
Cons
- Career progression (particularly within department) can be difficult
- 4.019 Feb 2021Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
Good Pay, Ample work & Good culture
Cons
Slow Career Progression & decision making
- 5.014 Sept 2021Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Strong pipeline and leadership Sincere interest in making this a great place to work Ability to change roles easily
Cons
Like all big companies, too many operational steps Sometimes barriers to promotion due to colleagues being here longer that had a slower career progression
- 4.030 Dec 2016FinanceFormer Employee, more than 5 yearsWilmington, DE
Pros
Work with strong team of professionals to allow development and career progression. Finance team has multiple opportunities in locations across the world.
Cons
Near term US business forecast is challenging with several large products losing patent exclusivity in 2015 & 2016 resulting significant reductions in staff.
- 3.02 Jun 2020ScientistCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsCambridge, England
Pros
The salaries are pretty good as well as the benefit package As a scientist there's a wide portfolio covering several different therapeutic areas They hire people with no previous industry experience
Cons
The constant regorganizations make a career progression really difficult Manager behaviour is completely unconsistent between different groups, even in the same department Due to the poor career progression there's a pretty high turnover
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