Scientist - Anonymous employee Amgen Employee Review

Agree with another review, Amgen used to be good, not anymore. The health insurance plan is worse and worse, premium goes up year by year, 2017 is a 38 dollars more / month compare to 2016. Amgen sent everyone a letter asking you to share more of their cost of the insurance plan---38 dollars more per month of whose salary is between 100,000 to 199,000. Even with this much premium, the deductible is 1500 dollars, without co-pay for anything, meaning you pay full with office visit. I visited doctor once this year,for something small, and paid 340 bucks in full. The insurance plan sucks now, but Amgen used to be good 5 years ago. With the new management team, new CEO, new CFO, Amgen cut off heavily in terms of employee benefits not only health insurance plan, for example, they cut off the expense on Xmas party, yes, you read it right, Amgen doesn't have a company wide Xmas party. Promotion here is another big issue, taking my department as an example, there is zero promotion to anyone in the past 10 years.