Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Pfizer as 75% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.38 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Data Science Manager and Project Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Becario and Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Pfizer takes an average of 26 days when considering 8 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Becario had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Data Science Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 40 days).
One on-site interview, the manager talked my past work experience and gave me an office tour. They wan to know you schedule and how you want to work with the company. If you are really interested in the life science industry, it will be a big plus.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Pfizer in Aug 2010
Interview
Normal pharma process, just tough to get in because of employees relocating that we're displaced.
Network as much as possible and do as much homework as you can on the hiring manager and products.
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Pfizer (New York, NY) in Oct 2010
Interview
Process was very straight forward from beginning to end. The recruiter was upfront and honest during the process and completely laid out the timeframe from when the interviews would take place to final candidate selection. I went through an initial phone screen with the recruiter, and then the hiring manager. After that was called in for 5 face to face interviews - all took place in a single day. Next steps in the process included two additional phone interviews, one with the hiring manager and an outside SME vendor. After a couple of quick rounds of negotiations was made an offer. The final offer was very fair.
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Question 1
The interview questions were standard; things like given the current environment how would you move things forward, or give me an example of when you were successful in ambiguous situation. The interviewers all had a standard playbook with each asking questions from a different section.