Amgen Reviews

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Amgen is a great place to work. Amgen is a great place to work. People work in teams, we have an open door policy, Flexibility. Career development opportunities and our pipeline is amazing.

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To many meetings about meetings.

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- Poor culture in general, not empowered, very hierarchical, sad atmosphere at department level
- Poor communication between leaders and their department, within department (knowledge sharing...), no interaction between functions (no F2F meeting when people are in the same building) while the office is so isolated from HQ in US ; there has been some improvements lately, driven by Communication, to create a more connected workplace
- Top leadership: few individuals do not seems to care about the department and the people
- Big lack of careers opportunities: all decisions are taken in the US, leaving very few opportunities for EU staff. No experience nor willingness to develop and mentor junior staff. Career progression, as often in EU compared to US, takes so long, when you are able to do so. Big turnover for the past years. Recently, leadership seems to have identified and communicated about those gaps, but fixing them is now the next step.
- No much work from home flexibility, which is manager dependent, so can create unfairness between coworkers
- As in every workplace, there are some few horrible coworkers, unbeatable to do nothing or deliver low-quality work but skilled with impressing leadership.
- Offices and IT equipment are so old, with very old looking open space, with very few spots for meetings and 1:1's

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Tends to be risk averse. US headquarters mean difficult hours in Europe and can slow efficiency. Limited opportunities in the UK for IS.

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Can’t think of anything at all.

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In recent years I feel that the scientific mission of Amgen has given way to a “follow the money” attitude. The company is now definitely being run by the money men and the old motto of “science first” seems to be forgotten

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Always looking to cut costs and maximise profit at expense of employees.

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Change change, constant change. Many senior personnel have left in the past year, following a significance restructure.

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Lack of career progression, hierarchical

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All the decisions are made by the US office , no career progression in Europe , no recognition for hard work , pressure and unrealistic timelines make the work environment very toxic
Senior management are never in the office , people work from home all the time making offices empty...
The junior staff are bullied and fired and the senior staff are contained to lower positions which is very frustrating