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ImmunoGen

Acquired by AbbVie

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ImmunoGen reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(75 total reviews)
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Mark J. Enyedy

85% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ImmunoGen has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 75 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ImmunoGen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.4 stars).

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75 reviews
2.0
Jul 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Unmatched healthcare benefits. They have worked hard to preserve the amazing health insurance plan despite all the cuts elsewhere. - A non-Cambridge commute with a large and free parking lot (next to a gym), which is helpful for those that live in the suburbs. - The new CEO has done a great job at restoring the financial health of the company. The balance sheet is orders of magnitude better than it was when he started, and Wall Street seems to be slowly forgiving the company for its past sins. - Decent fitness, tuition, and commuter reimbursements. Salary is not competitive, but not too far below the industry median, at least for associate/scientist titles. - There are some truly phenomenal scientists and managers here, but many are realizing their actual worth and seeking to put it to better use at companies that will actually let them do so.

Cons

- Blatant favoritism. Those with a line to upper management will receive what they want. Visibility is important, but in certain groups there is a vicious culture of stealing credit for associates' work in order to chase their next promotion. There are megalomaniacs in virtually every company, but the recent changes here have fostered a perfect environment for them to thrive at ImmunoGen. Some groups have already been torn apart by egotists who leave a trail of severely burned-out associates in their wake, having (ab)used them as a springboard for career advancement. When their workload finally catches up with them, they'll abruptly leave the company for "a professional development opportunity" that they "just couldn't turn down." - Turnover has been accelerating since the October layoff with little to no back-filling of both Associate and Scientist positions. And yet, hiring of Director-level and above positions has continued; top-heavy is a generous understatement. - Orwellian HR: dissuades employees from discussing their compensation with each other (which will be illegal for employers to perform in July 2018). Complete lack of transparency. Deceived employees by coaxing them into providing "anonymous feedback," only to admonish individuals in 1-on-1 meetings later for their supposedly "anonymous" comments. - There is a reason the company, which used to pride itself on the Globe's Best Places to Work survey, hasn't taken it in a couple years and likely won't for a few more. The culture is dead, morale is almost nonexistent, and upper management seems indifferent at best. - A bizarre resistance to interdepartment collaboration. Scientists and group leaders can be extremely possessive of their projects, refusing new and/or outside ideas with the flat-earth-theory-tier copout of "this is the way we've always done it here."

1.0
Dec 8, 2018

The Company Is Asking Us To Leave Positive Reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A free health insurance plan that doesn't require referrals and has low copays

Cons

ImmunoGen is emailing new employees and asking us to leave positive reviews here on Glassdoor. A recruiter working in the HR dept has also requested this from some of us in person. That is proof that the previous negative reviews are on target. HR has decreed that people are only motivated in life to leave negative reviews, so therefore the negative reviews here are not truly indicative of how people feel at IMGN. That shows just how Imgn views its employees and decides to handle their grievances: straight denial, refusal to address the numerous and very real problems brought up here, and then fighting back with unscrupulous tactics. They are also only asking new employees to submit positive reviews because they are still on their best behavior and mostly clueless to the history of mistreatment. It is also directly in line with their attitude towards attrition. They care about certain departments, such as clinical, but when it comes to the attrition in other depts., they say (a direct quote from an executive) “let them leave, we’ll get someone better.” So to my new fellow employees still in the honeymoon phase, enjoy your fleeting perks like pupternity leave, but the true feelings of Imgn are that you can be replaced, easily. Unbelievably, this attitude fits perfectly with our new communist culture motto: "Work. Behave. Done." No, that is not a joke. As well as giving preferential treatment to only certain depts., the company also only cares about select favored individuals regardless of merit. A number of middle managers wreak havoc in their departments and cause a high attrition rate. Many employees are forced to voice their grievances to other managers and HR, but nothing is ever done to address the actual problems that stem from incompetent and hostile managers. In fact, ruthless and amoral behavior by managers is often rewarded by promotions and more power. This broken system is further exacerbated by the review process. It involves 360 reviews, however, I can only see 180 reviews and have never been asked to provide feedback for anyone in my upline. Managers are not held accountable for poor performance and mistreatment of their team, yet any manager (even if not your own), is privy to your performance review and can even dispute your rating. And to cap it all off, you only get promoted if your manager is willing to fight for it. If you have an indifferent or, heaven forbid, hostile manager, good luck. You will go nowhere and discover you earn less than people with lower titles than you. If you bring up these issues with HR, they lash out and tell you not to talk about salaries. Remember, work, behave, done.

3.0
Jul 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great co-workers, awesome benefits, opportunity to become a scientist without a PhD. Great work life balance and flexible schedule.

Cons

They are talking about changing the benefits that they often use to low ball salary. I worked there for a long time and as of a month ago the company policy was to pay out bonuses to anyone eligible who had completed the fiscal year. I found out the day of my exit interview that effective weeks before they had decided you had to be there to receive it. So I lost my whole bonus and this "policy" is not actually written anywhere.

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