Toxic Corporate Environment - Scientist Amgen Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

On campus gym Ability to work w/ the best and latest instrumentation Ability to learn whatever you want flexible hours

Cons

The company has been taken over by back stabbing corporate ladder climbers. This company used to make the top 100 best places to work. Not for quite some time has it made this list. Despite having "being data driven" as one of their core values, they continue w/ the archaic forced ranking paradigm which has been shown endlessly to be counter productive and greatly impacts moral. Though I never was in the bottom ten percent, twice yearly review process was counter productive to Amgen's aims and only served to hinder collaboration between employees and groups.

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Amgen Response
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We appreciate your review, value your feedback, and take these concerns very seriously. While you've provided a great deal of detail, if there's anything additional you would like to share with our team, please reach out to amgen@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 again for taking the time to bring this to our attention.

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