Is Amgen a good company to work for?

Amgen has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 5,413 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 5% over the last 12 months. 64% of employees would recommend working at Amgen to a friend and 66% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Amgen have been left by employees working as Postdoctoral Fellow , Internship and Summer Intern .

Does Amgen pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Amgen employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Amgen. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Amgen?

64% of Amgen employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Amgen 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amgen?

Senior Manager (158) , Director (118) , Senior Associate (107) , Manager (102) , Scientist (93) , Sales Representative (80) , Project Manager (77) , Manufacturing Associate (72) , Intern (70) , Associate Scientist (54) , Engineer (53) , Senior Scientist (50) , Associate (48) , Senior Engineer (44) , Data Scientist (31)

What are the pros of working at Amgen according to real employee reviews?

"By working there as a full time employee you will work on a beautiful campus and receive great benefits." ((in 700 reviews)); "People are great and knowledgeable ." ((in 354 reviews)); "Amgen is a great place to work with good benefits and even better culture" ((in 286 reviews)); "Every mgr I've had has exemplified the Amgen values of putting the patient first and promoting a good work/life balance." ((in 251 reviews)); "pay is good and fair" ((in 202 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amgen according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management not fare assessment" ((in 169 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs and reorganizations which seemed to be due to planning issues and moving work overseas." ((in 87 reviews)); "All senior leadership claim they have no power and none of them can make a decision on their own." ((in 65 reviews)); "audit group is known to work long hours including weekends and evenings (more so than other departments)" ((in 44 reviews)); "Lack of career development and no attempt to improve the situation despite 4 years of negative feedback from staff." ((in 44 reviews))

What are employees saying about Amgen layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Amgen layoffs and their outlook for job security at Amgen in 2026.

What Amgen locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Washington , Boston , Rockville , Warwick , San Francisco , New Albany , Denver , New York , Juncos , Atlanta

Amgen reviews

3.8

64% would recommend to a friend

(4,179 total reviews)

Robert A. Bradway

74% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Culture & values

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.3

Senior management

3.3

Career opportunities

Amgen has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,179 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

3.0

Jun 13, 2008

Coulda been great !

Senior scientist

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Pros

Well resourced for research, good vacation and work life balance.

Cons

Pay is poor relative to cost of living (which is horrendous) - they get away with it as they are the only game in town. Equity plan used to be good here but now the grants are minimal and its pointless anyway as there is no growth, nor any in the foreseeable future.

1.0

Jun 13, 2008

Stay Away From Amgen – Bad Career Move

clinical systems applications developer

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Pros

The only reason for someone to work for Amgen would be they could not find work at the time they took the job.

Cons

The management team is not qualified to manage people or projects. They are not proactive, but reactive to circumstance. The line managers do not treat all employees the same and they discriminate.

3.0

Jun 12, 2008

Amgen is a place that is hard to leave.

Specialist

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Pros

Amgen is a place that is hard to leave. The people are generally nice (if you don't work in Thousand Oaks) and the benefits are the absolute best. Everyone gets 5 weeks of vacation plus a good health plan. Most people are only working 40 hours a week and everyone gets a year-end bonus unless you are really screwing up.

Cons

The biggest downside is lack of career advancement. If I stay at Amgen for another 5 years, I will likely be in the same position for all 5 years. The only opportunity I will get for a promotion is if my boss leaves or is promoted. Of course then I will be competing with everyone else in my group for that one spot. If you don't get it, keep waiting. It doesn't matter how well I perform as there are very few manager positions and those managers have a sweet deal so why would they leave. This is probably more true for people working outside of TO but it still sucks just the same. If the benefits weren't so good, I would have left. But it's hard to leave a really comfortable dead-end job paying reasonably well with 5 weeks vacation and only needing 40 work hours a week.

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