Is Biogen a good company to work for?

Biogen has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 2,630 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 3% over the last 12 months. 71% of employees would recommend working at Biogen to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Biogen have been left by employees working as Intern , Co-Op and Scientist I .

Does Biogen pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Biogen employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Biogen. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Biogen?

71% of Biogen employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Biogen 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Biogen?

Associate Director (100) , Manager (54) , Senior Manager (54) , Director (53) , Scientist (49) , Manufacturing Associate (40) , Intern (36) , Senior Scientist (25) , Patient Services Coordinator (24) , Co-Op (20) , Senior Associate Scientist (19) , Scientist II (18) , Internship (16) , Project Manager (16) , Research Scientist (16)

What are the pros of working at Biogen according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits and really good HR." ((in 353 reviews)); "Who would have thought you would meet so many great people working in an analytics lab." ((in 218 reviews)); "Biogen has a great culture" ((in 158 reviews)); "Great work life balance and completely WFH" ((in 104 reviews)); "good pay and good work" ((in 95 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Biogen according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management all over the building." ((in 76 reviews)); "Seem to have frequent layoffs" ((in 60 reviews)); "We recently had overly optimistic forecasts for products & senior leadership poorly handled managing media relations." ((in 53 reviews)); "Was lied to by direct manager more than once." ((in 39 reviews)); "Clueless upper management." ((in 32 reviews))

What are employees saying about Biogen layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Biogen layoffs and their outlook for job security at Biogen in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Biogen locations?

Cambridge , Research Triangle Park , Boston , Durham , Raleigh , Weston , Morrisville , San Diego , Chicago , New York , Los Angeles , Charlotte , Cary , Houston , Waltham , Kansas City , Madison , Washington , Garner , Columbus , San Francisco , South San Francisco , Somerville , Jersey City , Newark , Salt Lake City , Boston , Brooklyn , Webster , Louisville

Biogen reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,051 total reviews)

Christopher A. Viehbacher

74% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Biogen has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,051 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

5.0

Aug 5, 2021

Biogen is an inspiring and culturally diverse place to work

Senior manager

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Biogen gives you the stability of a well established company with international background as well as room for self development and creativity. The culturally diverse environment triggers opportunities to find new ways of doing things, motivates colleagues to respect each other and hear everyone´s opinion.

Cons

As every big company, the implementation of new processes/systems means involving a big group of stakeholders and therefore might take longer than in smaller companies that are naturally more flexible.

4.0

Aug 4, 2021

grate place to work

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Ethical environment and culture which impacts on a good climate to work

Cons

It is becoming a more agile company with innovation brought by products.

2.0

Aug 4, 2021

Great Promise weak delivery

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Young team and good environment to work on. I believe it is a good place to start career if you learn really fast. You will learn a lot on job if the people can keep up. Responsibilities will ramp up and be attributed in a quick way (good and bad). Funds seem to have no end for projects. No door policy. Improvement ideas always welcomed. Interesting benefits. Company growing fast leads to places opening up. Diversity and inclusion are big in this company, all teams are multinational.

Cons

Location of the site is remote. Messy organization of work and poor training of people leads to a sink or swim situation too quickly. Onboarding is almost non existent. Work life balance is very bad, as too many over hours are expected of many people to fulfil unreasonable goals and has lead to known cases of burnout in less than a year. Lack of resources for the workload. HR is a distant to barely existent partner. Managers are too focused on goals and not on the people they manage. Salary and progression seems unfair through teams and not related to responsibilities. Values the company states seem just for show and with no real connection. Finger pointing is the most common action after issues occur. Departmental competition and blame game is just ridiculous and too often.

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Research Triangle Park, NC

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Research Triangle Park, NC

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