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4.1
Average Rating
(based on 238 Amgen Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.5
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.2
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.3
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"In my career spanning over 25 years, Amgen is by far the best company I've worked for. The environment is collaborative, supportive and encouraging. Ample opportunity to refine and improve skills, as well as seek career growth."
Posted 7 years ago in Thousand Oaks, CA
Tivoli Consultant

"Good place to work."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Nice friendly environment and good management. Good place to work."

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

"Good place to work. management is very friendly and helpful."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the good work up."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Mechanic

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The knowledge that I acquired while maintaining fifty state of the art facilities."

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

"Innovation based in science is the key for success and advancement."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"A lot of the time politics was more important than performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"During critical events be less fearful while making decision based in facts."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Project Manager

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"They have an excellent benefits package , and promote a balance of work and life. They are local which made the work commute very desirable. The teams I worked with were positive, cohesive and pro-active."

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

"This is a great company to work for, be positive and look toward the future, Amgen will be a part of the future of Big Pharma."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Many times management had to approve steps in process improvement, that should have been given to the employees to discuss and approve."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestion would be to empower the employees to see a vision for process improvements, make a business plan, present it, then implement, with very little management oversite."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
QC Specialist
Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5
Validation Specialist

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Close to home. Great coworkers. Good food at the cafeteria."

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

"Make your workers comfortable enough that they will be happy coming to work"

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"There is always a competition between peers to impress the manager."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better offices for contractors, transportation inside the area and some time off."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Senior Network Consultant

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Nice company culture and good working environment and also efficient management."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Not a friendly working environment. Push employee to reach unrealistic goal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Manage the employees to do their jobs more efficiently and understandably."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Sales Representative

"I was a sales rep in both the nephrology adn oncology divisions."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"I liked the independence to get the job done and the financial rewards for doing a good job."

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

"Always focus on behavioral intrviewing, recounting stories of your success."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Sometimes too structured with not enough leeway to get the job done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give representatives the training they need and then allow them to be successful."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Health Systems Manager

"It is a great place to work, but extremely conservative."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The ability to help patients with new science technology and it is a very well known company"

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

"If you want to work at Amgen have a strong business acumen and show lots of success."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The way that the bonus/commission structure is set up. It punishes accounts with lower dollar volume"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would have them value their representatives more instead of making them feel like they are replaceable regardless of the number of years of experience"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Project Manager

"Great working with the company in such a high level of professionalism."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Team work and high professionalism, great working environment and staff."

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

"Show enthusiasm and demonstrate professionalism, organizational skills, knowledge and integrity."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"There was nothing that I did not like working at this company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take more suggestions for consideration from employees and set time for discussions."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Contractor

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"It was in a nice neighborhood and had nice work."

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

"I have no tips for people interviewing other than its a long process."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"It was no room to move up in the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think that management should expand their room for advancement."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Amgen Employee
Person You Work For 4.8 / 5 People You Work With 4.5 / 5 Work Setting 4.3 / 5
Support You Get 4.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.5 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5
Validation Manager

"I had a positive experience working for Amgen."

Person You Work For 3.9 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.8 / 5
Company Culture 3.9 / 5 Way You Work 3.8 / 5
Equipment Services Project Manager

"Great company, great talent pool of employees."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Marketing Operations Supervisor
Person You Work For 4.3 / 5 People You Work With 4.4 / 5 Work Setting 4.2 / 5
Support You Get 3.8 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.7 / 5 Company Culture 4.3 / 5
Way You Work 4.1 / 5
R&D Intern

"Very thorough and enticing workplace."

People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5 Support You Get 5 / 5
Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5 Company Culture 5 / 5
Way You Work 5 / 5

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Is Amgen a good company to work for?

Amgen has an overall rating of 4.1 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 238 Amgen Review Ratings left anonymously by Amgen employees, which is 5% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 96% of employees would recommend working at Amgen.

Does Amgen pay their employees well?

Amgen employees earn $75,000 annually on average, or $36 per hour, which is 14% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 56 Amgen employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Amgen Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Amgen?

96% of employees would recommend working at Amgen with the overall rating of 4.1 out of 5. Employees also rated Amgen 4.1 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.5 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Amgen?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Amgen is a Director of Regulatory Affairs at $301,000 annually. Browse Amgen Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Amgen?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Amgen is a Mailroom Clerk at $20,000 annually. Browse Amgen Salaries by Job Profile.

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