There are ways to do what had to be done today. And then there’s the way you did it. Cold and with a lack of compassion. What message did you send to those who remain? A lack of leadership and a Human Resources failure. The rank-and-file do not have a great deal of confidence in White Team Senior Leadership. Good luck inspiring us.
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Senior Leaders should be ashamed.
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No compassion, no humanity. Very unfortunate and disheartening
amgen not what it used to be...time to get out if you still are here
Completely unacceptable. Every so-called sales leader at Amgen is a bitch without a spine. A yes man, yes woman, compliance patrol. Nothing more, nothing less.
Amgen seems to be more task-driven. I've never understood why they are referred to as leadership. If anything, there's a lot of management. If the entire company was polled, how many employees would know the company's mission?
anyone else sick of checking off the “waste of time” boxes? Wake up amgen, checking off the box will not increase sales nor motivate your people. Time to get a grip
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It has been this bad for over 15 years, you just weren't paying attention. Look at the turnover. The culture at Amgen is horrible, I wouldn't remmend the place to anyone.
Agreed. Lack of humanity and respect. Culture lost. All BUs...not just white team
All of these culture surveys always fail to address the real culture problem at Amgen. There is no trust between employee and manager. You can’t even earn it. It’s always like you just met yesterday Every time. I knew this company had a major, Beuracratic culture problems my first day in the field.
I wonder how many people in the CLP program were let go. This is what happens when you have a bunch of number crunching MBA's that have no idea what the field does.
So, so sad! Heard Novartis managed their layoffs on Aimovig with class. Had people stay home and treated them with RESPECT!!!
Probably ZERO. CLP’s are the “chosen” ones who get fast tracked to the top even though they have no clue what they are doing, nor do they ever have to prove themselves.
Today’s blood bath extended much further than just to the white team and included both field and home office staff. I don’t know how senior leadership expects any loyalty or trust after doing something like this. But hey, at least the shareholders will be happy tomorrow - I hope they are aware it’s at the expense of many dedicated employees who have now lost their jobs.
Is this forum anything other than whining underperforming sales people? This is ridiculous. If you hate Amgen you should be happy with the severance and go find a job at all the other great companies that you'll be so much better at delivering results and selling like a champ. No wonder this is in California. Everyone here wants shit for free. You think it was random who they cut? The company had tons of extra fat. Your own managers made recommendations to cut you because you're not performing and we don't need so many sales people when our sales are shit. Aimovig isnt selling. Repatha isn't selling. Kyprolis isn't selling. You bitch and whine but your sales are a joke. That's why we fucking bought otetzla. Even if we overpaid a little bit we need the short term revenue growth and EPS accretion because we can't cut costs much more and you all can't sell for shit
spot on until Otezla. didn’t overpay a little, overpaid by 3-4B, what’s troubling is our history of poor acquisitions and inability to develop innovative drugs. If we want to hold the sales team accountable that’s fine, but where is the accountability for the executive team? Outside of price increases and expense cuts what has Bob delivered?
but they went to Wharton and fuck your School or business. I mean Fuqua.
Our problem the past decade has been activity focus. We dumbed down incentives and pay on a scale that rewards activity, not sales performance because we were scared by the CIA. Now that its gone, our culture remains activity focused.
Poor Otezla souls are going to get the shocks of their lives. We will crush their souls with activity as sales growth stagnates. Then will will bring in consultants to ask why and they will advise us to go after reps for not doing programs, making enough calls, etc.
We suck.
Poor Otezla souls are going to get the shocks of their lives. We will crush their souls with activity as sales growth stagnates. Then will will bring in consultants to ask why and they will advise us to go after reps for not doing programs, making enough calls, etc.
We suck.