Extreme expectations with low overall pay - Process Engineer Amgen Employee Review

3.0
17 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You always feel like you are making a difference to the patients. Work can be rewarding when you have time to reflect. Lots of coworkers are great people. Facilities are nice and relatively modern. Benefits are decent but have begun to be penny pinching. If you job hop or tick all the boxes they are looking for then it is a great company as long as you can avoid getting too invested in the work because if you get invested you will lose sanity very rapidly.

Cons

The amount of work expected year over year is unsustainable. Every year management expects more and more from top performers without giving significant pay raises or bonuses. Pay between departments is not competitive despite the quality and quantity of work being completed. Upper site management expects miracles and any issue is treated as world ending despite the severity. Different expectations for different sites, buildings, departments, groups, and employees make working extremely frustrating. Implementation of Jack Welch's management styles in employee ranking in the last 5-8 years has caused numerous issues. Leave of Absence process is extremely frustrating and third party company is terrible to deal with. HR is not very understanding for disabilities and will not hesitate to get rid of you if you can't return to work at 100% with zero accommodations. No flexibility from Management or HR, which ends up hurting everyone involved. Management are only trying to minimize their workload while offloading all work to the lower level staff. No opportunities for advancement unless you are one of the select few in the departments, but they will still overwork you and under-reward you. Staff get paid pennies and told they only 'meet expectations' when they enable the company to make hundreds of millions / billions of dollars.

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