BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,298 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,298 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
2.0
Jun 27, 2024

Stay Away

Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance Possibility to change jobs across different business units

Cons

Low salaries. Yearly Layoffs make collaboration very difficult. BD model is all about outsourcing and cost cutting. Lack of Growth opportunities unless you have a friend in upper management, Very slow moving company. Not innovative. Questionable quality control measures in products.

2.0
Jun 8, 2024

Ageist Company

Recommend
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Pros

I felt I was doing something important as part of a company that makes Medical products to help people. Also my co workers and immediate bosses were amazing people.

Cons

BD is an Ageist company that treats anyone over a certain age as worthless. I was in a meeting last year where 30 + individuals were laid off. We were told we would receive notice of our termination dates. After the paperwork was received in the mail and we began to discuss our dates it was obvious that the people with earlier termination dates were the ones they were going to re hire in the restructure. But they posted the jobs and let people waste their time applying when they had already decided who they were keeping. I was given a very lame reason for rejection. That is an example of the kind of smoke and mirrors used by BD. I have never heard a company talk so much of 'transparency' and be so full of deceit and lies.

2.0
Jan 10, 2024

They just need a warm body to answer phones and place orders

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and programs offered

Cons

They are a multi billion dollar company that withstands anything because the manufacturer medical supplies and there will forever be a need for it, yet they had a mass layoff of 150 people at lunch time on a Thursday and it was horrific. Also the managers and supervisors only hire and move up the ones in their click. It has nothing to do with qualifications when making the decision.

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