Not a good place to work. - Anonymous employee Amgen Employee Review

1.0
Dec 30, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits package. Good profit sharing plan.

Cons

When asked of HR in an open forum, "Does the company value work/life balance?", the HR person had to pause (not a good sign) and finally said, "Yes, but sometimes you have to fight for it." In my experience, that's overly optimistic. They treat everyone like wide-eyed military recruits that they can just keep heaping demands upon. Management is at best inept. Who plans to replace the entire AR/AP system 30 days before the close of the fiscal year, when 90% of the workforce has less than 90 days on the job? That's just dumb. (It was a disaster) Lots of good people left because of the reorg/move to Tampa, and the folks remaining in California were resentful (perhaps with good reason). They have showed little respect for the new folks in Tampa that they had to train. The CEO touts the "open concept" workspace layout as saving up to 25% on overall real estate costs, which I'm sure it does. It's ironic that a company in the health care space creates an office environment that is sterile - no plants, no pictures, no privacy.

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Cons

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Amgen Response
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Thank you for your review. We are pleased to hear you're enjoying your time at Amgen and hope your positive experience continues. Please do not hesitate to reach out to contact AmgenCareers@careers.pure.cloud with any questions or feedback for our team.
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Pros

*some groups still offer a hybrid schedule *you will learn a lot about industry *teams you work with are incredible

Cons

There is little to zero growth here. Management has prioritized hiring 10+ contractors for L3/L4 positions rather than full time employees. Some teams have collapsed and are now scrambling to stay afloat after many contractors left. Even with a strong business need to open more full time positions, management places the burden of leading full projects to their CWs. The full time employees here are completely overworked. There is poor project allocation within the teams. The 3rd party contracting agencies also take an additional chunk of your pay on top of what Amgen already pays the agency. You get paid significantly less than industry standard and still don’t get benefits. Amgen has their own internal contracting agency that doesn’t do this. However, you had to be referred by an FTE. I never understood why Amgen went with third party companies.

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Amgen Response
4mo
We appreciate your review and value your feedback. While you have provided a great deal of detail, if there is anything additional that you would like to share about your experience, please contact AmgenCareers@careers.pure.cloud. It is our sincere goal to prevent similar feelings in the future, and reviews are instrumental in our ability to implement change. Thank you for taking the time to bring these concerns to our attention.
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