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    Celgene Reviews

    Updated July 20, 2018
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    Celgene CEO Mark J. Alles
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    Pros

    • "great company, innovative products and great pipeline" (in 30 reviews)

    • "Some employee incentives including stock options" (in 29 reviews)

    Cons

    • "work life balance - success comes at a price" (in 20 reviews)

    • "Slowly Turning into big pharma; very little internal advancement; not much room for growth; Very tight timelines" (in 13 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (2)

      "Celgene Cambridge"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Exciting company focused on innovative science with a promising pipeline. The organization is pretty lean so there's opportunity to learn outside of your immediate job responsibilities. Good employee perks such as use of the gym, outside gym reimbursement and free subway pass. Great group of colleagues and a good amount of social events.

      Cons

      Bad traffic on CambridgePark drive. Not an issue if you take the subway in.

    2. "Statistician"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time

      Pros

      has good stock options / RSU

      Cons

      The base is relatively low compared to similar companies

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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Entrepreneurial atmosphere"

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      Current Employee - Senior Director in Summit, NJ
      Current Employee - Senior Director in Summit, NJ
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Autonomy and dynamic pace make Celgene an entrepreneurial place. Plenty of opportunity to contribute.

      Cons

      A bit chaotic. Very busy life, and a lot to do, but neither strategy nor process is clear.

      Advice to Management

      Develop from within, rather than bring in peo Le from outside. You build loyalty this way, loyalty to the company rather than to a single person. Promoting from within to balance gender representation will also provide opportunities to women down in the ranks. People who come up the ranks also know the ropes better and will not impose what they are used to from their previous jobs. PLEASE don’t fill high positions by hiring from outside without searching from within, first.

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Celgene Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I have been working at Celgene full-time

      Pros

      Great culture, meaningful work, good science

      Cons

      a little unstructured, which can be both good and bad

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Associate Scientist"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Summit, NJ
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Summit, NJ
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Decent benefits, time off, unlimited sick time, ramped improvements for paternity leave for up to 12 weeks. Flexible summer hours and possible opportunities depending on where you are at.

      Cons

      Poor management, favortism, and certainly nepotism, especially in my department. Some
      questionable choices by management and it shows as stock prices have not peaked past $80 in awhile, where as, it was $140 back 9 months ago when I first got my equity sign on bonus. In additon, very poorly organized and high expectations are expected despite working with very difficult team members, who have big egos, poor social equites, and are total slobs. Having a PhD doesn’t give you the right to leave your mess for the lower people to clean up. We are all busy.

      Advice to Management

      Avoid nepotism, since it really becomes discouraging to other team members. Have better management, who actually don’t host fake events to make it look like a team just for show. Look out for people on the associate levels and consider introducing a pension program. Why not? Company is producing twenty billion dollars and more in revenue with a positive high pipeline to come in the coming years. Consider shutting down the week of Christimas.

    6. Helpful (1)

      "Great people, tough business environment and organizational challenges."

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      Former Employee - Manager in Summit, NJ
      Former Employee - Manager in Summit, NJ
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Celgene full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great pay, benefits and people. Lots of smart hard working people who really do not need micro management.

      Cons

      Many sub cultures and organizational silos.

      Advice to Management

      Simplify, unify and standardize.

    7. "Not What it Was"

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      Former Employee - Director in Berkeley Heights, NJ
      Former Employee - Director in Berkeley Heights, NJ
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Celgene full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Pipeline is promising if they can pull it off. Those coming in now may be financially rewarded if there is success. Culture of bringing in at higher levels from the outside so if you join new there is opportunity.

      Cons

      Alles just figured out that management has to manage to avoid disasters like the FDA failure to file letter. Employees who have been there for more than five years have all option grants underwater, everything granted since 2012 is worthless, motivation shot. Company President, General Counsel, Business Development leadership, more, all gone. Stockholders meeting a joke, Board obviously did not care.

    8. "Senior Research Associate- I&I Division Cambridge"

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      Current Employee - Senior Associate Scientist in Cambridge, MA
      Current Employee - Senior Associate Scientist in Cambridge, MA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      A lot of great equipment and resources.

      Cons

      Terrible work atmosphere. Totally non-collaborative. Bad management. Every single person is working on an island with no direction.

      Advice to Management

      Change your style of management. Appreciate the people who work for you and understand how hard they work for the company.

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Stay away from in vivo pharmacology"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time

      Pros

      Company is great
      Excellent teams in San Diego and NJ

      Cons

      No 401k match unless you stay 5 years

      Cambridge MA - pharmacology group - Think twice. Look for better opportunities.

      -Toxic environment
      - High people turnover
      -Bad management and Micromanagement !
      -Isolation from other departments
      -Bad reputation of celgene Cambridge pharmacology inside and outside of the company

    10. "Luck has run out"

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      Current Employee - Senior Leader
      Current Employee - Senior Leader
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Celgene full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      The pipeline has some potential

      Cons

      We were a lucky and fortunate company with Revlimid. During those fat years, however, we got cocky and never invested in hiring great people, and didn’t work on strategy. The few good talent we had left a while back. What remains at the top is a talentless, bureaucratic, myopic group of people with giant egos. They don’t listen, don’t acknowledge mistakes made and continue to think that change is not needed.

      Advice to Management

      Advice to board: time to clean house

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