Should I hire on with Pfizer?

Would like to hear LEGITIMATE opinions about Pfizer, preferably from 10+ year veterans of the company. Have substantial amount of experience. Have heard various things about Pfizer over the years that sound questionable. Would like to get the straight story. Thanks.

 

TBH, if you have "experience" in this industry then you shouldn't need this board. I mean really, do your own homework and make the call yourself. Another words "Own it"!!!

 

Asking someone's opinion IS research.

 

Great place to work. You get a lot of resources from marketing. The managers are experienced and supporting. The interactions you get with physicians are second to none. A very rewarding career!!

 

Any reasonable and legitimate opinions out there?

 

Stay away. Dirty company... Although they will constantly try to beat into your head what great values they have but not live them.

 

What job are you speaking of?

 

If cafe pharma IS your research - You're Hired!

 

If you work hard and have a good relationship with your manager, it is lucrative and low pressure. However, always save like you may not make retirement because layoffs are common. I retired at age 52 and thank Pfizer for that opportunity.

 

Heard Pfizer lops off the bottom 20% of sales performers each year. Sounds draconian - true?

 

not true

 

I, too am asking the same question. What is the pay range for Primary Care sales rep?

 

If you're asking that question on CP then you're a ding dong. PFE isn't unlike any other pharma joint, except for size. We are running out of things to sell ....pristine is a dog, Celebrex goes off patent soon, then there's flector patch, toviaz , eliquis (yawn) and lyrica, Viagra...oldies but goodies. Unless you're in specialty or vaccines the PC outlook is rough.

 

I think your main concern should be what is happening to the industry. Is pharmaceutical sales going to be around 10 years from now??? It's a question everyone on this board should be thinking about. ObamaCare, generics, formularies, Medicaid/Medicare paying for over 60% of the meds (do you really think the government is not going to negotiate price controls (like Canada) at some point? The industry is shrinking big time…how much will be left is anyones guess! Not a pretty picture. Also, Pfizer's ELT is in the process of breaking up and selling the company (for a very big windfall for themselves personally). OWN IT- it's our future (unfortunately).

 

There's no future here as a sales rep, just survival. Yet Pfizer beats on about career advancement, and career ladder crap. HR spews this nonsense because it's part of their job. It only wastes our time with webcasts, teleconferences, hours and hours of CMR type courses, filling out career improvement plans that are never looked at or cared about, and countless hours of forced "volunteering" on different committees these numbnuts keep inventing to keep us out of the field selling. None of these things truly has anything to do with being promoted. None.

It is just a job, not a career. They are all about promoting for "diversity" and it's not a good time to be a straight white male here. Just about every promotion I've seen in the last few years were male homosexuals and /or blacks and/or females. It's impossible to believe they were all more qualified based on merit than all of the other candidates. So the bigotry is in full effect here, as well in D.C.. Civil rights violations and Discrimination are the new normal.

The one good thing I can truly say about Pfizer is that they are on time with my paychecks.

If you need a job, then work here, but don't expect it to be anything more than just a job. We see layoffs every year. It's like a year to year contract job.

 

Why would anyone today in their right mind want to be a pharma rep? Do something that is fun and not regimented, boring, etc. Why take tests, etc. Is this what you truly want to do with your life?

 

Benefits?

 

Hello. Are you kidding me? LMAO at this reply

 

Exactly.

The handwriting has been on the walls for YEARS.

These "jobs" are gearing towards their last lap...start thinking out of the box before it is too late!

 

To the OP - I meet your criteria, been doing this 10+ years. I don't LOVE my job - because, well, I'm a sales rep for Pfizer. But I do like it. I like the autonomy - which I think is underrated and rarely do you see it discussed how awesome it can be. I have a buddy who works 8-5 in an office and quite literally has to be there 8-5. Pay is ok - we all want to make more - but I'm near 100k which pays my bills and vacations and kids college fund. I'm not getting rich, but it pays my bills. I don't even know what they start people at these days - probably 50 or so. Benefits are great, really glad to have them considering the alternatives. Future? Who knows. As long as the docs in your area lets reps in, there will be reps. I think there will always be reps to some extent. I say if your options are limited and you need work and you get an offer, take it. If you hate it you can always look for something else. I don't worry anymore if Pfizer will lay me off. If they do I will do something else. But until they do I'll hang around and go make calls. Sometimes you might have a dork for a manager, but usually you will only see him or her once a month or so. The other reps you work with will usually be awesome, save for the chosen few who are crazy or dbags. Hope that helps you. Oh another thing - I like Pfizer because they are one of the bigger companies, if not the biggest - and they have as good a pipeline (so they say) as anybody - and if they get drugs approved (like they have recently) then you have drugs to sell, which means jobs. Always look at pipelines and patent expirations when considering any drug company. Good luck.