AstraZeneca Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Great people and awesome environment."

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

"It is a great company."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"At times they tend to micromanage."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't micromanage as much."

"Great place."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Management was open to the ideas and sales creativity of the sales force."

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

"Close your interviews!"

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"In retrospect, after working for a different pharmaceutical company, I realized Astra-Zeneca lack depth in their sales and clinical trainings. Their training was superior to other industries. Yet, in direct comparison with the sales and clinical training I received at Boehringer-Ingelheim, Astra-Zeneca's was sub par at best."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest in sales and clinical training for sale force."

"Looking for more career advancement/challenge and do not feel I can do that in my current role."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"I sell great medicines that I know improve patient health."

"I am satisfied with my career with AstraZeneca, but I am looking for a change."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Selling."

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

"Do your best and be yourself!!!"

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Upper level management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get more organized, trust your representatives more, and give your reps more opportunity to succeed."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Great products."

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

"Research the company and products."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Too centralized."

"sadder but wiser DM"

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Nexium Bonuses were awesome - some of my co-workers were great people and good friends."

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

"make sure that you are a diversity candidate and say president's club over and over in the interview."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Endless shadow reports.Idiotic middle and upper management.5 day meetings with only 2 days of content.Jerk bait bonus plans that change in mid stream."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop promoting incompetent diversity hires and pick people who really know how to lead and motivate others. Reduce the number of reps calling on the same physicians, instead, change the product mix."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"The integrity of the people"

"A opportunity in building B2B work ethics/sales/professional growth"

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Opportunity to build B2B workethics/sales/professional growth"

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

"Get as much information with the industry before going into it, it's not the industry for everyone"

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"small room for advancement to next level"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"expansion of new positions across the US"

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Flexibility, new product pipeline"

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

"Study hard for exams"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase DTC"

"The Worst Pharma Company to Work for BY FAR."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"3 of the 7 representatives in my territory were great and easy to get along with. I strongly believed in one of the products that I sold."

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

"Interview only if you need practice for other companiesOnly take this job if you are desperate and then immediately post your resumeRealize that you will be sacrificing your family life for as many years as you work here."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"From the first week of training, I realized that I had made a HUGE mistake in working for this company. Middle management was a bunch of super-aggressive 20-somethings that would do anything to get ahead. None were married or had kids. They told us we were lucky to have a job with AZ instead of AZ being lucky to have someone as qualified as us. Also, we had tons of online training every quarter that had to be completed online and was monitored so that you would not do it during normal business hours of 8-5:30.AZ did everything WRONG in dealing with its sales reps. It did not trust them. It required mountains of paperwork for everything. The number one biggest mistake was their treating every territory the same as to expectations. Example- My territory was roughly 6000 square miles with exactly 75 miles of interstate and covered 2 timezones. Expectations are you must be at your first call by 8:30 and have at least 1 signature for samples after 3:30. (another stupid criteria- judged on signatures not results!) For a great deal of my territory I then had to either stay overnight or leave at 5am and get home at 7pm most days. Another rep in my region shared he left his house at 8:00am and was home at 3:45 most days!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change your attitude towards your people.Promote based on merit, not suck-up.Realize that just because you eat, sleep and breathe work, not everyone does. Judge based on results- not # of calls in a day. Treat your employees better than you think they ought to be treated. Training time is work. I should not have to put in 2 hours a day on top of the normal 1-2 hours after work every day because you think we're lazy."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Co-workers are professional and dedicated to the job."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Corporate losing touch with value of front-line sales reps."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get back to being a sales organization"

"I agree with some of the earlier statements; overall, it is not a good company to work for unless you are a cut-throat."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"It was a great place when it was ICI/Zeneca"

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

"You will be unncessarily grilled so keep this in mind, write than-you notes restating your qualifications, expect not to be contacted for up to four months, keep your options open, and do not accept an offer unless you lack morals."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"There are too many things to list. They do not treat their employees right and are a very unethical company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have them undergo some of the harsh treatment they inflicted upon insubordinates."

"Thankful to have moved on."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Quitting."

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

"Think twice. They have very high turnover and inordinate amounts of people on stress leave for a reason."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"They have an awful culture, incompetent and top heavy management and no respect for workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Morale matters and the company's is very low."

What do you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"Nothing was my worst experience."

What don't you like about working at AstraZeneca?

"The management are not organized."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Organize and split the work to other employees."