Hospira Reviews

3.5

90% would recommend to a friend

(610 total reviews)
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Christopher B. Begley

82% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Hospira has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 610 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hospira employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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610 reviews
1.0
28 Oct 2014
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Pros

A great place to collect a paycheck for a year or 2 until the regulators finally catch-up and take real action. They will pay you a great deal of money to come on board.

Cons

Hospira has serious ethical issues. Employees are treated very poorly. The whole organization seems to be OK with sweeping issues under the rug instead of dealing with root causes. IT systems are supposed to be validated, but Hospira cannot even tell the FDA and others how many or what IT systems it has deployed. One employee potentially lost his/her job because he/she pointed out that actions Hospira had taken might be viewed as fraudulent or misleading in the eyes of regulators. Some employees speculate that the company is being sabotaged purposely by upper management in a ploy to get acquired by a larger firm. 70+% turnover in IT and high employee turnover in other areas as well. Was hired in a little over a year ago with 30+ new employees and of that group I know of 24 who left in the their first 10 months. At least one executive level employee is having an inappropriate relationship with an employee who reports directly to him. Leadership is well aware and does not see this as an ethical issue. Do yourself a favor and stay away.

1.0
21 Sept 2014

You will have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some good foot soldiers still left but dwindling

Cons

This company has very low ethics. They have been known to threaten and fire people when they get sick. The managers hold their people accountable for the manager's missed deadlines. They laugh at FDA's observations and therefore create a culture that never improves compliance issues. The general rule is for staff to put in unheard of overtime sometimes not allowing for lunches. They often require weekend work on top of this mostly for unpaid OT for exempts. Senior management are a big bunch of bullies and they like to pit worker against worker. They pretty much roller skate all over worker laws and compliance laws. In short, by God AVOID!

1.0
5 Apr 2015
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Pros

Decent landscaping- that's about it

Cons

I left after Pfizer announced that they would acquire Hospira and that they did not know who *if anyone* would still have a job after the deal closes at the end of the year. I feel bad for the employees that were loyal to this company. Outside of the acquisition I can tell you that Hospira is a revolving door that cant retain talented people. Their infrastructure has been deteriorating since they offshored IT in 2009 and they have a bunch of entry level Indian IT workers that barely speak English running all of their major systems. If you have any skill or are able to communicate effectively people will latch onto you and call you at all hours to avoid the frustration of dealing with the outsourced helpdesk in India. There is no role definition because the outsourced helpdesk cant figure out where to route tickets. So if there is a major problem they just start throwing any resource at it. There is no recognition for talent- the review and bonus process is arbitrary. Management waits until the day before reviews are due and then scramble to throw reviews together and reward all the suck-ups. Run- dont walk- away from Hospira.

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