Amgen Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Amgen; wonderful work/life benefits. Outrageous HR management issues."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Outstanding work/life benefits you won't get at most companies. Employees are a tight knit family."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you apply direct; unless you know somebody that has major pull, you won't get hired. However if you live cross state, then the HR recruiters would love to steal you from your current company and pay boatloads of money to relocate you. That might be your best strategy to even get an interview. Be prepared for a multitude of panel interviews."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"No potential for growth. Amgen does not like to promote from within. HR department has become bloated with becoming the police department. The decision power should lie within the highly paid management teams that focus on everyday operations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Amgen pays an insane amount of money to train and grow employees, but spends its HR resources recruiting and relocating from the outside. Doesn't make any sense. Before I left there was a push to promote within, but it never got off the ground. Also I need to emphasize: HR department has become bloated with becoming the police department. The decision power should lie within the highly paid management teams that focus on everyday operations."

"Most nurturing work environment I have ever had."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The workplace atmosphere and pristine environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The fact I am not there anymore."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Please consider rehiring former employees."

"One of the best companies on the planet!"

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The people!! Great teams!!"

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The location. I did not like living in Southern CA."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None - they were EXCELLENT!"

"This company like many other companies are experiencing economic changes."

"Amgen was an incredible place to work and grow professionally."

"Great place."

"It was a contract position, with good exposure and great experience."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"There is room to grow and plenty of mentors to go around."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be open minded."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The high lay off rate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To stop laying off hard working employees that are contractors, and keeping the not hard working FTE's."

"Not what it once was, but still ok."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Great atmosphere and intelligent staff and pleasant relaxing work environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Start as high as possible. Taking a lower job to get in will necessarily keep you there too long."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Difficulty advancing."

"They are the devil personified."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay away."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"They are liars."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Go to church."

"Great place to make a career."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Great work/life balance, beautiful campus, employees are treated well."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Pay was not great, advancement took some time. For someone just starting out from college, not the best, since it's not easy to advance. But for someone already established, this is a great place to work long term."

"Good company."

"A good place to work if you are comfortable with the politics as this will determine your success more so than your knowledge, quality of your work, professionalism, or dedication."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"A lot of intelligent, well educated, decent people there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Amgen is a good company as far as big companies are concerned. They are also very generous to their people. Collectively however, as a company is has little tolerance for strong characters so steer clear from being to direct, using any words that could be interpreted as aggressive, and be very aware of any mannerisms that could be interpreted as defensive."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"It's one very big bureaucracy, it's very difficult to get anything done. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Lead."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Hard work is rewarded. Have a good work/life balance."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself and honest."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should be more involved with their staff."

"There is more than one way to skin a cat."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"I have really enjoyed providing a diligent effort toward finding ways to make mortally ill patients with the best possible product lines."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The landscape is changing rapidly, but although exciting, these changes appear to lack core values Amgen built its industry on."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Never forsake the team."