Biogen reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(2,048 total reviews)
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Christopher A. Viehbacher

73% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Biogen has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,048 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Feb 22, 2018

New leadership does not appreciate its people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people here are top notch and super friendly. The old friendly and helpful culture is still around, but recent guidelines do not emphasize that anymore, so it's hard to say what will happen. Historically, great benefits and perks. Summer hours, nice bonuses, Stock Purchase Program, weekly Social Hour, winter shutdown, sabbaticals, remote work, reliable raises if you perform well - all things the new leadership is threatening. Reliable raises are gone now.

Cons

The company is in a big transition in its culture. New CEO / HR / CFO, etc. It's not clear where we will land, but this is definitely not the Biogen of even 3-5 years ago. It's beginning to feel like a soul-less mega-corp and that is just so sad. New compensation guidelines are very hard on every single employee. You can work 60 hrs a week, far exceed expectations, do everything that is asked and more, and still your manager can do very little to reward you for that. This has really decreased morale among the top performers at the company. Why bother to work 50-60 hours a week, when others work less than 40 and get the same raise? 1-2 people in the entire department get a raise sufficient to counteract inflation. Do amazing, get a top score and the raise you get is the same % that an average performer got for the last twenty years. Doesn't feel good at all.

1.0
Dec 3, 2017
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Pros

Health insurance and retirement benefits are very good. This is a hold over from past days.

Cons

Very negative culture. Leadership is absent on multiple levels and throughout the company. Management does not value differing points of view. Management only wants ‘yes’ men and women. This place use to inspire teams to leverage diversity of thought to better achieve a richer outcome, now it uses fear and negativity to try and achieve their goals. The environment at Biogen is unstable. People are constantly getting laid off. I’ve had 6+ managers in the last 12 months. My story unfortunately is not uncommon. I’ve seen Biogen hire people and relocate them, only to let them go a few months later. Wow. With the numerous layoffs and reorganizations throughout the company (several times within the same functions), the opportunity for career growth has been reduced to nearly zero. People are removed from their current positions and ‘placed’ in others with no regards as to whether they want that role or not. While others who are applying for those ‘open’ roles are left with no opportunity to grow or expand. This happens often. Many people at Biogen are leaving in droves because the culture is so negative. Beware, not a healthy or good place to work.

2.0
Mar 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

It had a thriving pipeline when I was there, but it is flat now. My peers were smart, hardworking, and ethical, but, of course, they've all been laid off.

Cons

Heartless cuts of nearly an entire department betrayed the true sentiments of executive management: we only care about the bottom line. We pretend to care about the other stuff.

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