Description ALZA helps medicine get under your skin. The company concentrates on drug-delivery systems, primarily transdermal patches; GlaxoSmithKline's #1 smoking-cessation product NicoDerm CQ uses ALZA technology. Other drug delivery systems offered by ALZA include electro-transport systems that use electricity to push the drug through skin, implants designed to regulate drug delivery for up to a full year, depot injections, liposomal technology for intravenous drugs, and timed-release tablets and capsules. The company has been a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson since its 2001 acquisition.
ALZA has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 59 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALZA 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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Overall, 80% of employees would recommend working at ALZA to a friend. This is based on 65 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
63% of job seekers rate their interview experience at ALZA as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at ALZA.