AstraZeneca Employee Reviews for Representative

"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."