Forest Labs Reviews

I worked at Forest Labs full-time

Pros – They had a technical 35 hour work week; although many worked more than that. Also in the summer they had half day fridays; you worked a little long monday to thursday but had a longer weekend.

Cons – The culture is changing they dont come across as caring about their people as they used to.

Advice to Senior Management – A lot of people talk make it seem like they like you but then talk bad behind your back. Be aware of under the surface concerns.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Good benefits and vacation policy.

Cons – Difficult to grow with the company and employees who are unprofessional are tolerated and accepted instead of forced into retirement.

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Pay is level with industry. You do get more vacations for more years of service. Paid lunch time. Usually no overtime.

Cons – Unless you enjoy your job function, you can be bored here, as the company culture is lacking spirit and fun. Pay is not so great considering the location (minutes from NYC where everything is expensive). Parking is expensive and not provided by company. No gym. Workload used to be very reasonable, but has doubled in recent years due to pressure of patent expiration. Depends on managers and groups, you may or may not be valued as an employee.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve company culture to boost morale.

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – The people, my colleagues across the org

Cons – Management and the inconsistency they allow and foster. Not top management, middle management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Felxibility, no samples, no time and date stamp

Cons – Upper mgmt has no clue

Advice to Senior Management – Get some realcmanagers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Forest Labs has great products, a stellar team, a bevy of new compounds coming to market in important categories where pay, benefits and career growth is possible for serious, dedicated team workers.

Cons – The company is undergoing great strains as it moves to a mature pharmaceutical company in a difficult market for sales at historical profitable levels. There will be a lot of turmoil in the next few years due to patent expiry in important products

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to better communicate with employees and the public about strategy, position the business is taking, and change in the marketplace as it pertains to the business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Great company to work for, provide good benefits and healthcare options, work life balance is great. CO seems like they have a good pipeline

Cons – IT department is a total wreck. Both CIO and IT Corporate SVP lack integrity, effectiveness and honesty. No transparency. Management spends unnecessary budget to get the same or higher budget following years. Give too much business to friends and relatives.
It is also disappointing to see multiple internal fraud instances over last few years in IT but the top management culprits are not held responsible.

Great company, CEO, CFO are extremely bright but If you want to work for Forest, avoid Informatics department by all means.

Advice to Senior Management – Remove CIO and SVP Corporate IT and directs. Appoint new CIO and IT management .Make the department better and there will be no negative impact to the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Good location with nice views. Great benefits and perks. Salary is decent as well although stock options not performing.

Cons – Informatics senior executives do not really listen and do not manage their staff due to lack of professionalism and it is reflected on everyone downstream several levels below.

only in it for themselves and managing up by putting on a different face so to look good is not a very good way to run IT. Staff productivity, morale, motivation and attitudes are really poor across all Informatics areas due to extraordinarily bad management. Unnecessary stress, politics and pressure.

It is true that most of the folks in senior roles are in some shape or form "connected" to CIO and SVP and hired from outside - clear sign that there is no internal staff development to move up. Forest has a lot of good talent that is not being utilized effectively.

Advice to Senior Management – Appoint new SVP Corporate Informatics and direct reports.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Forest Labs

Pros – Very diversified, good technology, great people

Cons – a little slow to move, little sense of empowerment

Advice to Senior Management – Empower people more, you will be pleasantly surprised how well they respond.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Forest Labs

Pros – Good benefits
Work Life benefits
Some smart innovative people

Cons – Unrealistic expectations, Infrastructure expects you to Work 24/7
Lots of Nepotism - family, past colleagues and friends get it all, esp. in Informatics
Little career growth, most senior exec roles go to outside because there is no leadership development
CIO and his executive team lack integrity

Advice to Senior Management – The problem is the CIO and his SVP, VPs .
Never meet with IT staff and I am in IT supervisory role.
A lot of IT jobs going offshore and the senior IT leaders CIO, VPs orchestrate this for personal purposes

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend