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      3.8

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (5,295 total reviews)
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      Tom Polen

      68% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,295 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      5K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 19, 2015

      Great peers, poor management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Some of the nicest, smartest, most helpful people I have ever worked with. We support each other while facing challenging management.

      Cons

      Management does not value employees. Saving money is more important than product quality.

      1.0
      Dec 19, 2014

      Great Product Offering and creative talented employees; Very weak management.

      Manufacturing engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Meaningful work and results, producing products that save lives every day somewhere in the world. I thought there was good cross-functional teamwork evident, from manufacturing/warehouse employees with engineers, quality, scientists, regulatory, really across all of the teams in my plants. This was largely based on conscientious and creative employees who were willing to help, wanted to do the right thing and take personal ownership on issues, rather than well-defined business processes, or any policy or directive driven by a weak management team. Good Employee Benefits Package.

      Cons

      Weak Management and leadership, more focused on blame, parochialism, and moving on to their next fluffy assignment. Poorly defined roles and responsibilities by management across teams creates gaps in ownership and disjointed nebulous business processes, where teams are working in grey areas far too often. Technology strategy is weak, 10+ years behind, not capable of reacting quickly to support an environment with frequent mergers/acquisitions and to integrate with a common WW BD IT platform that really doesn't exist. SAP initiative was/is poorly managed and deployed several years behind schedule, over budget, and de-scoped all of Europe/Asia with no outlook to complete. High rate of attrition/turnover breeds a lack of ownership mentality, and a team with limited intellectual capital to leverage, at times.

      3.0
      Nov 15, 2014

      Too Much Politics

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work/life balance was good and time-off policy was pretty fair.

      Cons

      On the surface, everybody seemed nice and polite but Backstabbing was wide spread. Office politics was too rampant that it frequently delayed new product development and launches.

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