Toxic - Associate Scientist Amgen Employee Review

1.0
Sep 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good but certain associate levels of scientist are hourly. Get ready to risk your life so you can get paid when there is a state of emergency. Benefits are starting to dwindle.

Cons

Toxic culture where cronyism reigns supreme and only those protected benefit. Abominable managers who don't care about their reports, no career development, abusive managers are protected by HR and the abused are targeted, laziness and sloppy science. All senior leadership claim they have no power and none of them can make a decision on their own. Women, minorities and non PhDs are generally treated like sub humans and are denied access to internal meetings.

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