4.0
May 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Amgen does incredible work in researching and creating therapies for grievous illness. The staff are committed to what they do.
Cons
CEO is a Wall Street guy and that's how the company is now being run. The tag line is "Every patient every time" - but is it really? Terrific research was being done at their Washington State sites, with many potential molecules for the pipeline, but Amgen shut those sites down. Selling the Helix Campus for $240 million (40 acres ON the waterfront of Seattle - state of the art research labs, which cost $630 million to build in the first place). Why? To please Wall Street and Shareholders.