Amgen reviews

3.8

64% would recommend to a friend

(4,194 total reviews)
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Robert A. Bradway

77% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Amgen has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,194 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amgen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Oct 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Leaders in implementing new technologies and business strategies. Benefits are very good and they offer a lot of employee programs to support health and family. (Unfortunately, everyone is so over worked they can't benefit from these programs, but at least the company is making them available.)

Cons

More time is spent on corporate spin than on actually developing and manufacturing drugs. The politics have overwhelmed the work that is being done. Every bit of data is massaged and presented in presentations and more time is actually spent on colors and charts than on the actual data that went into the reports. So much time is spent "talking" about the data, the message behind the data is actually missing.

4.0
Oct 20, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and flexibility. Freedom to take initiative.

Cons

Promotion from internal is lacking. Keep hiring from other big pharma, which causes bureaucratic nightmare.

3.0
Oct 16, 2011

learning experience.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

very good benefits, educated people, work life balance, on-site gym, diverse workforce

Cons

no one really knows what's going on, lots of cutting in R&D department, lots of company politics to get to where you want to go

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