Amgen Reviews

Pros

Amgen is a fun place to work

Cons

Amgen is too big and thousand oaks is the only good location

Pros

Encouraging
Value
team work
opportunity for creativity

Cons

too competitive and stressful in some situations

Advice to Senior Management

cooperative and social
administrative skills should be improved

Pros

good for your career growth

Cons

i felt a lot of work

Advice to Senior Management

nothing

Pros

great benefits
great holidays
great on campus food

Cons

way too many hours
almost no recognition
career paths change without consent or notice
makes promises it won't live up to

Pros

help people with grevious illnesses

Cons

not challenged
can be political at times

Pros

Good 401K match and stock grants

Cons

Too many managers and sales reps

Advice to Senior Management

Try to connect with the sales reps

Pros

Benifits, Work Life Balance, compensation

Cons

Top Heavy, No empowerment, slow decision making

Pros

Great benefits
Week off in the summer and winter
Generous 401K matching
Flexible work arrangement options (telecommuting, etc.)
Beautiful campus with top notch gym

Cons

Top heavy, too many managers, not enough individual contributors
Culture more like that of a big pharma company than a biotech, i.e. slow, bureaucratic
Certain departments are political - not conducive to matrix org.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many middle managers. Hire more individual contributors to do the work or convert middle managers into individual contributors. Middle managers do not communicate effectively with each other and do not work together as a unified team. Matrix org. is not working in an environment where lines are drawn in the sand between the company and its previous acquisitions and between the various sites.

Pros

Amgen has a very professional enviroment for research and development of bio pharmaceutical treatments. Very good at employee training and development.

Cons

As amgen is a much bigger company now, there are defeciencies in decision making and there are unavoidable politics in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Not much to say except try to keep the professional scientific enviroment within this company and try to minimize defeciencies.

Pros

the benefits are competitive, pay is fair, development opportunities.

Cons

first line management is un-profesional and work load is un-organize.

Advice to Senior Management

be more people oriented