A story of how AstraZeneca devastated me, a new mum.: opiniones de empleados con el puesto de Digital Marketer en AstraZeneca

I joined this job and I soon realised that I was pregnant. I told this to my manager as soon as I was sure, and this immediately changed how she behaved towards me. Even though she could not explicitly say or openly discriminate towards me, she would find faults with my work, even though there were none. I worked in the CommEx team that had a real lack of top-down strategy. I could not even understand why I was hired. The job was entirely different from what was advertised. Even though their website was behind a wall, I was asked to conduct audits manually, without proper tools. For context, that's like asking a plumber to fix something in a home without taps or pipes with 0 tools. My sentiments were echoed by others who were hired in a similar role and quickly left. Other people in the team too felt that they were victims of poorly thought-out job descriptions and often had to work without proper tools or retrain. On top of this, the onboarding processes were non-existent with several trainings thrown your way with very little time to complete them. The culture was toxic with people using your vulnerabilities against you, as I mentioned before. My manager commented to me that someone told her that the brand team thought I was incompetent. She did not tell me why or who. I had to actually run my own investigation, surveys and a series after every project to prove that this, in fact, was not true. I also confronted my team members and brand members to understand why such a comment had been made and realised that the whole thing was just made up at worst or a misunderstanding, at best. I felt like I was being harassed within legal boundaries. I was also subjected to feedback like, "you seem to be working as though you're only going to be here till your maternity leave starts', which is ironic considering their lack of strategy and what happened next. Even if I set all of the above aside, the culture is toxic. The managers do not explicitly ask you to work late, the timelines and KPIs are extremely unrealistic. This essentially means you'll be working very hard, very late and you will achieve nothing because of the organisational chaos. My manager has no idea what she is doing and is only interested in furthering her personal agenda by spending her time on expensive trainings and attending speaker events and so on. She has no interest in her team. She relies on the performance of few colleagues in the team who have been here forever to sail her through. Do not join if you have a family or are thinking of having one. This is not a supportive culture. In fact, it is the opposite. I gave up a really good job in one of the big 4 consulting companies believing this to be a rock-solid place to work. Unfortunately, I could not have been more wrong. Despite this, I persisted and worked very hard to pass my probation and start my maternity leave. However, they made my job redundant at the end of my maternity break, leaving me devastated. I was offered a handsome redundancy pay, but this job took away the flexibility I would have had in an existing job. I had to also deal with added stress of looking for a new job within the new constraints that I had. I struggled emotionally and my career took a setback because I chose this company. My personal life, financial stability and my connection with my family suffered. Please avoid at all costs.