Amgen Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Good benefits."

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

"Find a boss who is people oriented, and honest."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Bad manager and director."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do more investigation and examinations about managers who lied and inflated their jobs achievement when talked to their directors and demonstrated with poor people skills. Once confirmed with multiple inputs, they should be removed from their positions."

"Good employer, Amgen."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Good culture, balanced work/life."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Management structure, politics."

"It's not worth the stress."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Great benefits and perks."

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

"If you have a family or a life outside of work, then look elsewhere!"

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"VERY political and competitive among support staff. No real growth opportunities for support staff. Constantly feel that you have to fight to keep your job. Demands put on support staff in some depts. are wayyyy too much for what the compensation is, yet in other depts. they have a very easy job and make more money, Not fair or equitable at all."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Company needs to slow down on the demands they make of people, makes it very stressful and people are getting lost in the shuffle."

"Good company. Downsizing/outsourced IT."

"Great company to work for, and it's too bad I had to take the bar exam."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Very comfortable, professional atmosphere, yet still a level of fun and excitement."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"There were always so many rumors floating around -- a little annoying."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communicate often with employees, addressing facts and rumors."

"Some stars, some corporate deadbeats!"

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The coworkers at the Bothell site were some of the best people to be found anywhere at any company!"

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

"Find out all you can about who you will report to before accepting a job with this company."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"The middle managers to whom I reported were spectacularly incompetent, and were tasked to make determination of my own value/merit. As a result, I was naked in a northwestern thunderstorm!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They already fired the people to whom I reported, however I have since lost contact."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"People and food."

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

"Get on the Internet, do you homework."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Last contractor in first contractor out."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Progressive environment; open to flexible strategies to accomplish workload; fairly honest and candid working relationships."

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

"Have integrity, work ethic and creativity."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Sometimes rumors get the better of reality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow more consulting to management and supervisory management positions."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Stability."

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

"If you expect training to give you directions for your job you are in the wrong path. Amgen Corp environment cares first for products, then for people."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Corporation environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen more to employee suggestions for improvement."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"The opportunity to join a great company like Amgen."

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

"Be honest, true to your self and experience, be a star at what you are doing best."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"I was temp."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue recruiting talented scientists to join Amgen."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Highly competitive and successful company. Had the rare opportunity to grow with the company as it reached out and became the largest and most successful Bio-Tech company in the world."

"I hated Amgen Rhode Island. Quitting was hard because they pay well, but it was the best decision of my life."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"It was a start-up, so a very good learning opportunity."

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

"Stay away from the Rhode Island site... management is dysfunctional, and people step on each other to get ahead. It doesn't seem to be this way at the other Amgen sites... only Rhode Island."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Promotions were not based on technical skill, rather, the ability to 'suck up' to upper management... and not many of the upper managers were that competent compared to the lower level engineers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop promoting your friends."

"This was contract position."

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

"Present your best."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Provided educational opportunities."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Not much advancement opportunities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more advancement opportunities."

"Amgen Manufacturing is a great multinational company which believes in developing its personnel in order to develop the company. I had the opportunity to manage millionaire capital construction projects and assets as a Project Engineer."

What do you like about working at Amgen?

"Engaging in team work for a common goal of delivering products to cancer patients."

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

"Reseach the company and truly understand career objectives."

What don't you like about working at Amgen?

"Stress and strict deadlines all the time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communicate goals to staff to understand the management priorities."