Amyris Reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(350 total reviews)
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Kathy Fortmann

74% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Amyris has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 350 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amyris employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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350 reviews
3.0
23 Aug 2014

chaotic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

passionate people, good science, lots of potential, co-workers are great, great culture - lots of intersting ideas floating around

Cons

bad execution, some senior managers tend to micro-manage, wrong people in top positions, lots of energy wasted over office politics, company struggling to define itself as a manufacturing entity, process development headed by incompetent people who have to scale up experience

1.0
23 Jan 2026

Good

Recommend
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Pros

Good Environment & management & all .

Cons

Nothing bad to mentioned here

5.0
19 Sept 2021

good

Recommend
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Pros

nice job i like it

Cons

can be better through amenities

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