2.0
13 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 8 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Good benefits, good colleagues. The vacation/holiday benefits are really nice. Other benefits used to be really good, but I don't know if they've kept up with industry standards.
Cons
The focus on cutting costs has gotten stronger year by year to the point where management is sacrificing the future of the organization for marginal short-term gains. This includes an increasingly conservative and risk-averse attitude towards Discovery Research, where the company is unwilling to spend any money or time on anything that isn't already well-validated and being worked on by other pharma companies. The long-term culture of Amgen has faded away, replaced by a toxic death spiral.