Biogen reviews

Annual company “confidential” survey is a farce. One of the survey questions asks if you fear retaliation from your manager for your answers on the survey...speaks volumes about serious problems with your corporate culture and the quality and ethics of your leaders and managers. Survey results rarely lead to substantive changes that make employees lives easier and reduce bureaucracy to get work done. HR is completely ineffective and add to the toxicity of the culture. Lack of confidentiality and transparency are routine. Favoritism not expertise and results are the ticket to advancement. Senior Executive team lacks cohesion and a shared vision for Biogen. They do not act as a high functioning team because are so busy protecting themselves from the wrath of the CEO. The Company Quarterly Meetings are awkward. They feel forced and inauthentic.

Politics, cronyism, and favoritism reign supreme. In R&D, there are high experienced, competent employees that are not fairly compensated relative to other employees' background and minimal experience levels. It comes down to who your hiring manager was and his/her judgment in making hiring decisions. Sometimes poor decisions get made, causing loyal, hardworking employees to feel resentment to those less experienced ones (but higher up on the career level), leaving a culture with an extremely low morale, bitter resentment, and nasty gossip. Everyone in my group has talked trash about everyone else in my group, and this is not a secret to anyone. It truly epitomizes the worst toxic corporate environment.