Celgene Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Celgene

Pros – Celgene paid really well and the benefits are top notch!

Cons – The place is toxic. There are VERY few people that are happy with their jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – Do skip level meetings. You're employees are unhappy because of the leaders you've put in place. If people weren't afraid to stand up, the company would be a phenomenal place to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Celgene

Pros – Exposure to mutliple technologies hence learning is good.
Responsibilities are broad.
Good medical and dental plan
No major competion yet

Cons – No work life balance
Many employees are overworked.
Arrogant and Ignorant Managerial staff.
401k is matched in stock and only "X" amount vests per year

Advice to Senior Management – Workers are good,but skills of managerial staff needs to be reviewed
Expand to other asian countries
Some employees are overworked hence add more staff

Current Employee – been working at Celgene

Pros – Opportunity work in multiple functions and across geographies

Cons – Need for a better human resources function; ability to bypass bureaucracy and be flexible to retain top talent

Advice to Senior Management – SImplify Decision making and use of resources judiciously. I have the feeling that we do a lot of wasteful work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Celgene

Pros – qualified management; challenging work environment

Cons – Additional resources to foster advancement and learning

Advice to Senior Management – continue to encourage and challenge employees to execute on clinical development. Additionally, continue to respect all points of views by employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Celgene

Pros – Good pay and benifets, new facility - state of the art. Strong product line. Excess capacity ready for growth.

Cons – Limited professional growth, poor management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Celgene

Pros – Benefits
Flexibility
People are very, informed and intelligent

Cons – Unorganized
No seems to know what they are doing
Lack of communication

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Celgene

Pros – Flexible work hours, compensation, stock options

Cons – Honestly - people at Celgene overall are just not very nice. They are the most unfriendly, hard-driving group of people you would ever want to meet. Going to work their was depressing and most of all intimidating. And truth be told, the management THOUGHT they knew alot more than they truly did. If they ever saw how other larger drug company executives were like, they would be ashamed of themselves. But the old boys network thrives at Celgene.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat the company as a learning organization, treat others with dignity, the ends do not always justify the means.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Celgene

Pros – the culture, helping patients, the people

Cons – growing very rapidly, culture changing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Celgene

Pros – Learn a lot, brand value helps getting other jobs down the line

Cons – Mechanical work, not much growth in professional status.

Advice to Senior Management – better communication skills needed and need to reward employees for their hard work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Celgene

Pros – Steady somewhat competitive pay rate as long as you play along, small yearly bonus, reasonable benefits, lots of good folks at the ground level.

Cons – The culture is very confusing, management constantly preaches about taking initiative, be open, values,be good etc.
 However, the environment is very corporate.
 In reality, opinions and initiative are not tolerated.

Advice to Senior Management – Remove your non -profit slogan "Doing well by doing good".
Change it to something more realistic to represent a for profit organization.
maybe something like " Our medicine helps people".