Pay and raises (<%2 annually for the past few years) are horrible. People are leaving in droves to work for other companies that are offering 20 - 30% more in pay and Pfizer is offering no compensation adjustments to staunch the flow. My department is very short staffed, overworked and burnt out. When positions opened up, instead of promoting experienced people from the department into them, they hired people from outside instead. Pfizer is against development from within. Learning more about the minutiae of your job is considered development, rather than getting a promotion. "Up is not the only way (referring to development)" is strong in the culture but is detrimental in my opinion. Management has no clue or doesn't care, even after years of employees telling them that we are understaffed. The company is paying for it in errors made, investigations, etc. There's little flexibility in scheduling because we are "the front line." Standard Work (efficiency program) has only made the work environment worse, with inexperienced people doing jobs infrequently across the department creating more errors and investigations. If you're considering working in any frontline Pfizer job, I would strongly urge you to re-consider.
