Working at Forest Laboratories in Saint Louis, MO: 4 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Saint Louis, MO Area

"Great experience - great opportunity for advancement"

What do you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"great pay and career advancement if you are willing to work hard"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be willing to work hard - the benefits are there"

What don't you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"example of the Peter Principal at work - people promoted just because of sales ability and not ready to manage"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure management is prepared to be promoted - better development"

"While working with Forest I've grown as a sales professional ten-fold."

What do you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"I like that my company rewards hard work more than most of the other Phamaceutical companies around. Most pharmaceutical representatives get the reputation of being lazy. My company does not allow this on any level."

What don't you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"I feel like I've maxed out my earning potential. Over the past few years our company has started a bonus structure that is very difficult to understand and calculate. My company started paying higher base salaries with smaller bonus potential. I feel that my work ethic and performance merits both."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To cut the dead weight. We have alot of reps. who don't pull their weight but for some reason stick around."

"Good starting place, don't plan to stay forever."

What do you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"The large territory was great for future roles, also the variety of practitioners you called on gave you great experience for the future. The bootom line is that it's a great starting place, companies love to see you've worked at Forest because they know they have extremely high expectations for their reps and if you've survived more than a couple of years you must be a really hard worker."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Tell them you'll work at least 70hrs a week or more and you'll probably get the job."

What don't you like about working at Forest Laboratories?

"Forest is big on micromanagement. There's a lack of opportunity for growth unless you want to relocate or you've made really good friends with someone higher up. Promotions are made mostly on who they like not who's most qualified. There's a huge lack of balance between work and family. And I guess because of the large amount of unhappy people, the amount of negativity is overwhelming. Forest tears you down allowing you to easily find another company eager to mold you into the rep they want."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Positive reinforcement. Positive coaching. Key word POSITIVE! Maybe if they weren't so negative, they would get more out of their reps."