Amgen is ran by a bunch of blowhards that need to hear the loudest voice rather than anything of merit.
Anthony in leadership of CDNA has created an environment of that if you dont suck up, youll be ostracized and want to quit.
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.
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.
Love the type of work; hate the politics, backstabbing and company's lack of loyalty to long-term staff. Treated like a number, rather than a human being. Do more with less people has been the theme for the past several years. They let go of the folks who have built up their knowledge of the company, who have reached a salary at the top of their band, who are aging or are too "inconvenient" (by offering a package or forcing them out by making false claims or making the work environment hopeless and toxic).
Shittiest management I have ever been associated with. The executive director comes from primary care and wants to control everything.
No decisions made by the people under him, look how that has worked out, control freaks usually fail.
Trust the people you hired to do the job!
