Shame they outsourced IT - Senior Project Manager Amgen Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global company with a great name in the industry, awesome location and benefits , in addition their drug pipeline is getting stronger. Recent setbacks have caused them to become humbler

Cons

in a bid to reduce costs they made a huge mistake by outsourcing IT and now are trying to bring it back in house. The CIO had to fall on his sword and leave as a result. The current CEO needs to go

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Because of the pandemic, Amgen did improve on empowering their employees to prioritize their wellbeing. Campus is beautiful and nice benefits.

Cons

Very demanding, which in my opinion may illicit a competitive nature amongst staff, which I didn't care for. Pretty difficult to move up compared to other organizations I've worked at. Diversity and inclusion is a bit lacking - in 2020, there was a lot more access to DEI material but it didn't last.

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