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    Updated 11 Dec 2019

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    3.6
    65%
    Recommend to a Friend
    82%
    Approve of CEO
    Amgen CEO Robert A. Bradway
    Robert A. Bradway
    688 Ratings
    Pros
    Cons

    • "Work life balance could be better" (in 84 reviews)

    • "Multiple stakeholders and multi-level decision making engender rounds of reviews and buy-ins" (in 65 reviews)

    More Pros and Cons

    1. "IS Specialist"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Dublin, Dublin
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Good salary, flexible, plenty of opportunities

      Cons

      High turnover so a lot of extra work from people leaving

      Amgen2019-05-31

    2. "Good company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Process, systems, workplace, diversity, flexibility.

      Cons

      it is a good company to work.

      Advice to Management

      Brilliant

      Amgen2019-09-02
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    3. Helpful (3)

      "Poor Professionalism from Managers"

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      Current Employee - Manufacturing Technician in Dún Laoghaire
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Pays well Good benefit packages for permanent staff

      Cons

      Very little focus on training Management focused on meeting targets at all costs Regularly see violations on GMP guidelines Managers do not want to accept responsibility for mistakes, always looking to blame members of their staff Staff given too many tasks to do at once and then reprimanded when not everything is finished by the end of the day, focus is on quantity of work not quality of work Managers... reluctant to let staff move from department for career advancement opportunities

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      Advice to Management

      Think more about the well-being and happiness of staff than about meeting targets at the cost of GMP and quality guidelines

      Amgen2019-10-02

    4. "Poor training, too many contractors"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Dublin, Dublin
      Doesn't Recommend

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Dynamic, challenging workload, opportunity to gain experience with many different areas.

      Cons

      Poor management, too many contract employees, poor training.

      Amgen2019-08-24

    5. "Senior Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Senior Engineer in Dublin, Dublin
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Amgen full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Decent Salary, Pension, share Options etc

      Cons

      Lack of Career Progression, Hire and Fired Attitute, Undeserving of diligent employees

      Advice to Management

      If you want to get the best out of people, lead by example

      Amgen2019-08-23
    6. Helpful (3)

      "Stressful and Manic"

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      Current Employee - Senior QA Associate in Dún Laoghaire
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amgen full-time

      Pros

      They pay well and that’s it’

      Cons

      Disorganized, poor training, Always looking for people to blame when things go wrong, stressful, manic, little direction and little or no support.

      Advice to Management

      Management simply don’t seem to manage at all, seem to not care about employees or are somewhat incompetent and simply don’t know how to.

      Amgen2019-06-19

    7. "Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for more than 8 years

      Pros

      Loads of exposure to a variety of products produced

      Cons

      Very restrictive to hands on working with equipment, this stifles knowledge and learnings that could be obtained to help continous improvement and efficiencies.

      Advice to Management

      Listen to feedback given by, and act on it, dont just pay lip service to it.

      Amgen2019-02-03

    8. "Good Placew overall"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Dublin, Dublin
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amgen full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      The best is the People

      Cons

      The worst is the Technologie

      Amgen2018-11-15

    9. "More accountabilty -less blame"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Dublin, Dublin

      I worked at Amgen full-time

      Pros

      Good facilities South side location

      Cons

      The people can be clicky Management loves the blame game

      Advice to Management

      Accept more responsibility

      Amgen2018-08-11

    10. "Snr Associate"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee 

      I have been working at Amgen full-time

      Pros

      Good salary and good incentives

      Cons

      Too many politics and strong blame culture

      Amgen2018-05-23
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