Biogen reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,052 total reviews)
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Christopher A. Viehbacher

76% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Biogen has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,052 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Biogen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Jul 29, 2015
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Biogen is enjoying great success and grew very rapidly, especially in 2014. The company is full of energy and enthusiasm about potential benefits to patients in multiple disease areas. Benefits and work life balance are great. CEO has higher-than-average integrity and openness.

Cons

The company is rebuilding after a down phase in the latter 2000's. Most functions have more demand than capability.

3.0
Jul 7, 2015

Need work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent science; smart, passionate, loyal and dedicated employees; excellent benefits (mostly); company offers several different options for alternative transportation/transportation assistance.

Cons

In desparate need of project managers and career development opportunities. Seem to be focused on bringing in outside experts who then recruit from outside, rather than retaining and developing internal talent that are interested in learning about new Tx areas, techniques, phases of drug development. Lack of awareness with regard to human resources and sustainability, i.e. we're not hiring/retaining an adequate number of individuals required to complete the work and do it to Biogen standards. Mixed messages from leadership: policies promote work-life balance and flexibility, upper leadership mandates that employees use their vacation time, but workload, overlapping projects and competing priorities won't allow for it. Employees lose unused vacation days. Bonus structure needs attention.

3.0
May 6, 2015

QC

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible with time, good amount of vacation days, good 401k, tuition reimbursement, nice campus, good location, proper SOPs, newer facilities

Cons

A few of the downsides were management, professionalism, lack of acknowledgement, but overall good company to work for

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