BD reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(5,281 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,281 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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3.0
Sep 7, 2011

Decent Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay Good benefits Work with some great people!

Cons

No respect for personal time! If you are sick you risk getting wrote up if you don't have enough vacation to cover your absence or if you can't find someone to trade days with you. Same as if you have sick kids or have to drive in from out of town in the winter! They would rather you kill your self and drive through a blizzard than call in. Days off are not reallly your "days off" They require that you give all your phone numbers and will call you in if someone didn't show up. Also they schedule a lot of mandatory overtime. Management play the favorites game. If you kiss their butts you can pretty much get away with murder but if they don't like you, good luck! Have NO idea how the whole process works! They come in and implement changes and don't care that they made more work and that 99% of the time it doesn't work anyway.

4.0
Sep 7, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work / personal life balance - Friendly group of people with diverse backgrounds - Great history and core products

Cons

- Too many chiefs and not enough indians - Too many people just talking and planning but not actually doing - Lack of energy and unified workforce all working towards same goal

4.0
Sep 6, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is generally regarded as a safe bet by investors. It has been steady through good and bad economic times.

Cons

BD is very bureaucratic, probably like many other large companies. The culture is that of sustaining engineering and does not lend itself to innovation well.

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