Still the same mess? New players, same game? As bad as you think it is, I just finished a project at an insurance company and their IT is a complete joke for a Fortune 100 company with ~30K employees and had $34B in revenues.
They still install all software manually on the desktop and servers (and not consistently installed the same way), servers are constantly going down but they only get them online when someone complains. Monitoring the infrastructure is taboo (Of the 90 days I was there, the network went down at least one a day).
They have paper badges and funnel through the same entrance with only one guard available (more like a Wal-Mart greeter). This is not a site in a small town, this is their HQ and in one of the largest and most dangerous cities in America. I would only work during sunlight hours and wondered if I should be armed.
The IT staff is strictly 9-to-5 with any maintenance done during the business day. IT managers walk around screaming at each other and everyone else. Between the location of HQ, the lack of physical security, and the terror management instills, I would consider this a very hostile work environment.
So PFE can't be that bad -- legacy PFE employee who went through Warner Lambert, Pharmacia, and Wyeth merger and integrations and divestiture of Consumer to J&J. My word to the wise, if you can stand it just put your head down and do the work. If not, take a package...but be weary. The grass is not always greener on the other side.
They still install all software manually on the desktop and servers (and not consistently installed the same way), servers are constantly going down but they only get them online when someone complains. Monitoring the infrastructure is taboo (Of the 90 days I was there, the network went down at least one a day).
They have paper badges and funnel through the same entrance with only one guard available (more like a Wal-Mart greeter). This is not a site in a small town, this is their HQ and in one of the largest and most dangerous cities in America. I would only work during sunlight hours and wondered if I should be armed.
The IT staff is strictly 9-to-5 with any maintenance done during the business day. IT managers walk around screaming at each other and everyone else. Between the location of HQ, the lack of physical security, and the terror management instills, I would consider this a very hostile work environment.
So PFE can't be that bad -- legacy PFE employee who went through Warner Lambert, Pharmacia, and Wyeth merger and integrations and divestiture of Consumer to J&J. My word to the wise, if you can stand it just put your head down and do the work. If not, take a package...but be weary. The grass is not always greener on the other side.