BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,277 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 5,277 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 Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Apr 6, 2009
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Pros

BD University was a wonderful learning experience and offered tools that I use every day in business. The overall effect made BD a highly professional environment and a relatively pleasant place to work. At BD there was a true commitment to work/life balance, especially to young families and people with disabilities. While working there one felt they were making an improvement to someone's daily life.

Cons

Too much politics and old school network when seeking opportunities and/or advancement. Individulists were isolated and excluded from opportunities, both professionally and socially. The wages were quite low for the region and were only partially offset by the benefits provided. An in-depth analysis of the cost-of-employment should be done before accepting any offers.

3.0
Feb 28, 2009
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Pros

BD Biosciences is a very interesting place to work. They really do take their social responsibility very seriously. They produce very good and high quality products. They really do want to make a difference in patients lives. There are some really good people working there who are very dedicated. My work was interesting and I had a lot of opportunity to work on interesting projects.

Cons

There are some managers that are very knowledgable and some that hold eqivualent positions that have no clue what they are doing. The funny thing is that the upper management has no clue that there is such a disparity in skill sets. Also, there are some managers that reguarly use threats and intimidation to run their departments. They use their positons of authority to bully their emplyees while the upper management turns a blind eye to it. There is a manager there that is a sociopath and has a strange fasination with Baers. Pun intended.

3.0
Feb 25, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great. I never thought I would meet so many of my best friends at 1 job. Everyone gets along very well although it can be almost "soap opera-like" if you aren't careful. Nobody is happy with their jobs, but that may be the one commonality that pulls everyone together. Everyone is overworked and willing to pull together as a team when it is needed. There is also a lot of mentoring going on instead of actually documented training- which is great from an employee perspective, but not a business/quality perspective. The benefits are pretty good- start out with almost 4 weeks of vacation for entry level jobs. If you want to advance within the company, there is plenty of opportunity to do that.

Cons

Management is pretty horrible, the pay is AWFUL compared to other companies, and they will work you VERY hard. All of your friends will be making much more money, in a much nicer facility and will be working more regular hours.

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