AstraZeneca Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Cons

Way too many internal changes going on at once (softwares, systems, SOPs, structure, vendors). Work almost 60hrs/wk. POLITICS !!! many unqualified people promoted because of politics! Upper management is not in touch w/real world and sets goals with timelines that make them unfeasible....work quality suffers. Poor planning (tied to timeline/goals).

Cons

New upper management who doesn’t pay attention to those who work and those who don’t

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big company with all disavantages about the fact that you remain a number

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There is No work life balance in the CV Sales division- very aggressive unrealistic sales quotas. District sales manager makes job enjoyable or miserable depending on who you work for. When PTO is figured they use 7.5 hours for each day. We work well over 7.5 hour days. My District Manager routinely emailed and texted reps many times each week before 8 am and after 6 pm “sorry for late notice but...”. You needed to check emails and texts at all hours. He had a lot of conference calls & lots of reports taking time away from seeing customers. Consistently worked 10 plus hour days. Average work week 55 hours. Many managers obsessed with posting on workplace (corporate facebook). We were Required by our district manager to constantly post and respond to his posts. It gives upper management the illusion that district sales managers “engage” with sales people. Posting is not engaging your people, it’s often distracting and takes time away from customers. It’s also a potentially legal liability. Every 1 1/2 to 2 years there is Complete shift in top management changing roles or leaving the company. As a result the sales division has a complete shift in changing priorities and performance measurements.

Cons

Upper Management is not good and occupied by one state people who are partial to their group alone. No promotions, it is very very very very difficult to get promoted in AstraZeneca GTC (no matter how you work). Resource allocation to be improved and not single resource should be dumped with many projects. Pressurizing employees to come back to office after wave 1 and wave 2 by not understanding the situation. As a pharmaceutical company, I didn't expect this kind of approach from AstraZeneca during this pandemic. Please understand the pandemic and try to avoid return to workplace. Try to continue work from home.

Cons

* Patent expiration of blockbusters provides uncertain future * Collaborative efforts with other pharma companies poses a risk * Conservative marketing approach allows more aggressive competitors to take advantage with bolder claims

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Pay and bonuses are decent

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Unfair and Biased upper management

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Those that have been there the longest are the ones that cause drama and gossip the most, they look for reasons to get people in trouble and treat co workers poorly because they are untouchable. I witnessed people get together to discuss what they will say to HR and management regarding people they do not like or plays by the rules set forth by Astra Zeneca and I watched management and HR target those same people. There was encouragement to record people’s conversation and present the recordings although this was against company policy. The place was so toxic and unwelcoming especially towards darker skinned or mixed people when the mixed people were identifying black. There was protection for certain people although they were blatantly racist and discriminate against people who they did not identify with and management as well as HR supported this behavior. Quality group would write untrue things in deviations, training records were falsified by those higher in management and the company got away with these things. The company seems to be racist and makes people that are not of the majority suffer by poor treatment. The people that have been there as manufacturing operators are the worst people to work with, the ad was person is nasty and treated people like crap purposefully intimidating those he did not like and favored those that were Spanish speaking.

Cons

Many changes in the pharmaceutical industry are changing the way companies do business, including the way they market their products. Your direct manager dictates the atmosphere you will work under - most are good people. Your product(s) might be of excellant quality, but it can be difficult to sell your product(s) if they are not picked up and included under insurance formulary plans. Upper management can be frustrating: a bit out of touch with reality in the field. Sales goals for representatives can be unrealistic and might thus be unattainable. Perhaps this is part of the downsizing plan. Most of the pharmaceutical industry (including AstraZeneca) is moving toward reducing their ranks. AstraZeneca is currently going through planned phases of downsizing that will take several years. One cannot feel confident in having a lasting career with AstarZeneca due to the lack of job security. Having past success does not insure your job during downsize campaigns.