Amgen Employee Reviews

Extremely fast paced working environment. Prioritization skills are key. Work is meaningful and the culture is like no other. Great place to work.Diverse working environment where everyone is valued and communication between staff from all sites is excellent. All staff is extremely helpful and responsive. Challenging working environment but it is definitely a satisfying place to work once you find your footing.

Pros

Culture is amazing.

Cons

Work balance can be affected due to adverse events or different tasks needing priority.

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Tough with no work life balance

Engineer (Former Employee) - Dublin, County Dublin - 26 July 2023

Tough place to work, no work life balance, calls in middle of night, expected to work all hours. Everyone logged on in evenings as not enough hours in the day to do what’s expected

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Based on 5 survey responses

What people like

Supportive environment
Ability to learn new things
Time and location flexibility

Would recommend

QC Analyst (Current Employee) - Dublin, County Dublin - 12 November 2022

Very nice benefits Management varies in focus depending on area assigned to, nice opportunity to work hard and get ahead in the culture with promotions etc.

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Loved the people

Catering Assistant (Current Employee) - County Dublin - 3 March 2022

Happy relaxed .facepacedAlways huge amount of customers...kept busy .which was good..finish3d half 3 .which was great for me.plenty of over time to ...meet loads of people and new friends

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Manager of customer success (Former Employee) - Dublin, County Dublin - 3 December 2021

Do not work here.Blame culture from start to finish.No support from management Training consists of reading articles sometimes 3 pages longToo many systems and some are legacy systems from many years agoReally toxic environment No clear strategy or sense of belonging or cultureNo transparency regarding career development Great salary highest in Dublin but that really is the only pro.

Pros

Salary

Cons

Blame culture

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Fellow co-workers were a mixed bag of friendly and helpful to unhelpful and misleading. Management were not pleasant to deal with.

CQV Engineer (Former Employee) - Dublin - 12 May 2021

Most co-workers in my department were very helpful and good to deal with. Some however were openly unhelpful and misleading leading to tension. The management were unapproachable, took very little interest in my work, did not try to foster a team environment or make me feel like I was part of organization. They provided no guidance and very little feedback.

Pros

Excellent Canteen and locker rooms

Cons

Poor Work Culture, felt like just another employee to be exploited

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A rewarding place to work

Student Intern (Former Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin - 9 June 2020

A lovely place to work. There was a great work life balance. The work space is very open and bright. Excellent facilities for video calls. Wonderful facilities for food and very good value.

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Great place to work yourself to death

Engineer (Former Employee) - Dublin - 17 March 2020

Great place to work but very competitive environment between departments, everyone has their own priorities, no common goals. I enjoyed working there as I liked the fast pace environment but it is stressful most of the time and can impact your personal life greatly.

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Production

Process Technician PM3 (Former Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin - 14 February 2020

Work was sort of micro managed with the new regime of managers that had taken over from the Pfizer management people felt very uneasy to perform tasks

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You are just a number

Sr. QC Microbiologist (Current Employee) - Dublin - 18 December 2017

When you work with Amgen you are treated like a number not a person. There are many benefits but there is no personal touch...no work/life balance and no rewards for hard work

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Diligent and community-like workplace

QC Microbiology Associate (Former Employee) - Dublin, Ireland - 27 January 2017

I found the job challenging and every day was something new to learn or experience. I learned so much about the process of drug production, and the amount of work that goes into every aspect of the process. I felt very proud to be playing a role in providing healthcare in this way. Leaving this job was the toughest professional decision I have ever made, but I wanted to experience living abroad and something new.

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Good pay poor communication and training

Snr associate (Former Employee) - Dublin - 2 January 2017

It is an excellent company with respect to compensation, and seem to look after permanent staff well, the difficulty relates to contact positions, there seems to be no feedback whatsoever either positive or negative, and there is an extraordinary blame culture. I'd recommend it as a stepping stone rather than a long term career prospect.

Pros

Pay

Cons

Blame culture, non existent feedback for contractors.

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first one in Ireland

Office Cleaner (Former Employee) - Dublin - 25 November 2016

very tolerant, strict rules, and open to new improvement techniques, very good care of the employees and a good corporate path for self development,excelent

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Great biotechnology company

Industrial engineering intern (Former Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, D - 28 March 2015

There are many things to learn from a biotechnology company like Amgen technology. As a student intern in this company, I gained valuable knowledge about the values of project management. There are continuous improvement projects being conceived and developed at Amgen at any given time, therefore, there is a lot to learn from the processes and operations that are on going at the company.

Pros

finished early on fridays and weekends off

Cons

very fast paced environment

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productive, friendly and safe safe place to work

QC Stability Associate (Former Employee) - Dublin - 16 September 2014

During my time in Amgen in the stability department, I undertook a variety of tasks. I helped to pull samples, update their location on the LIMS system and deliver them to various departments . My job included updating data sheets , annual product reviews and I helped to update SOP's. I hade to converse with various contract labs sending data vis email, this process allowed me to use both Amgen and Pfizer protocols. Throughout my placement in Amgen I helped to collect inventory of controlled substance and organise their removal off the premises. I enjoyed all of the task mentioned above along with all of my other day to day jobs. Amgen provided a very enjoyably atmosphere to work in along with a great deal of support and camaraderie amongst co workers. Amgen provided a great deal of traning including sop writhing skills which are invaluable to me in my future career.

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good place to work

engineering technician (Current Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, D - 7 August 2014

good experience, learned a lot of new skills, and enjoyed time spent with this employer.

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Really great people. Great exposure to new technologies.

System Administrator\IT Support (Current Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, Dublin - 29 July 2014

Great support to improving processes and delivering new ones.

Pros

People

Cons

Communication, career progression.

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Very buoyant workplace

File Share management (Current Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, D - 1 July 2014

Poor communication to staff and contractors. Generally great people on the Dun Laoghaire and Santry Sales Office.

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Nice place to work. Very friendly environment.

Upon promotion to junior engineer (Former Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, D - 18 March 2014

A typical day consists of completing environmental reports for the suite's on site. Dealing with daily BMS requests and completing BMS daily checks. Completing a variety of different surveys on site and daily requests from senior engineers. I learned about the clean and black utilities on site, also the process systems used within the suite, I gained familiarity with the suite. I learned about GMP, Non GMP systems, CAPA's and the day-to-day management within the Utilities office. Within my office were the senior engineers on site and all were very friendly and helpful during my time in the company. The hardest part of my job was time balancing the variety of requests from senior engineers within the Utilities office. The most enjoyable part of the job was the friendly environment in which i worked, the staff made me feel very welcome and there were a variety of clubs and societies on site.

Pros

Friendly atmosphere/environment. Job satisfaction

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great employees made some good friends

Hygiene Specialist (Former Employee) - Dún Laoghaire, D - 2 October 2013

job was good but the management were very unhelpful. was promised a lot of benefits such as safe pass,full time hours, then to be made redundant after 30 days along with a few others who i started with