Company Monitoring Page for Amgen

The Amgen purge: if after election the departures and new hires would change. Watch and will see.

Thousand Oaks is too close to LA. So it is the LA culture. LA is NJ of the West

If you manage a project beware of too many stakeholders. This is like a project in a project, managing stakeholders that may have opposite agendas and expectations. Some are more important than others. Some want to be important and try to impose their demands upon project manager. You cannot ignore any, since they can have connections and try to hurt you later. This stakeholder management adds unnecessary workload and causes a lot of stress. Not to mention it could negatively affect the main project. Thousand Oaks is a nice location, but not the people.

The company is hiring top R&D person from Novartis. Not a good choice considering Novartis record in developing biologics

Provides 3rd grade managers to smaller, less experienced companies

A fraud company

Amgen has a management style to periodically purge the organization and let go several hundred people. Beware of managers coming from Amgen to your organization.

Massive layoff in manufacturing

Horrible boss. Lack of accountability at the leadership level.