Pros
Pfizer is a Fortune 50 company and industry leader with global operations and the resources to train and equip their personnel to the highest standards. In 30 years with the company, I learned an enormous amount about healthcare, disease management, business management, leadership, advocacy, communication and so much more. Their compensation and opportunities for personal and professional development were outstanding. Even though I was 'downsized' after 30 years, I cannot harbor contempt for a company that taught me so much and enriched my life tremendously.
Kontras
Despite the many Pros of a career with Pfizer, I can only rate the organization with 3 of 5 stars because during my later years, as the company expanded greatly and acquired numerous other companies, I was increasingly surrounded with colleagues who lacked the professional standards that Pfizer taught me in my early years. Leaders at the highest level of the corporation created an atmosphere of distrust and a sense that the company was 'circling the drain'. While patent expirations, pressures from managed care, negative public opinion of the industry and gaps in scientific discovery were putting substantial pressure on the company, fewer and fewer of the leaders seemed able to provide calm guidance and honest leadership but instead, seemed to panic.