BD reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(5,286 total reviews)
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68% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,286 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
Sep 21, 2015

Biosciences is falling apart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Excellent products (reagents and instruments) -Flexible work environment -Opportunities for lateral movement/growth -Good severance package once they decide to lay you off

Cons

-Shortsighted: annual layoffs/restructuring despite revenue growth. This is to meet big BD's goals and to cover for losses in other segments. -San Diego site is run by a junior management team that is very insecure and insular. -San Jose site is being pushed to deliver on product development projects with unrealistic timelines. Launch readiness determined by leadership team and core team leader without consideration of commercial readiness. -Difficult to advance in your career. Director and above roles being filled by new MBAs that lack career and industry experience. -Senior leadership team changes every three years causing company culture to shift.

1.0
Jul 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

fair training opportunity; if lucky will have warm-hearted colleagues / seniors helping but everyone worries about his / her own rice bowl so team members often fight for lime light to keep afloat.

Cons

A space where no one really speaks his / her mind as people do disappear suddenly (asked to leave). So called 360 degree review is scary as if spies are everywhere. Too many small interest groups and cronyism. Team members can compete internally rather than work collaboratively. Disposable culture: employees can be seen as disposable resources; no real intention to develop their career; politics among middle management make it very difficult for subordinates to truly deliver

2.0
Feb 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits. Challenging technologies and work environment. Some of the best peer relationships I have ever developed in industry. Good total compensation package.

Cons

Over the last decade, the company has undergone a painful transition. What used to be a responsive market innovator, has slowly become an ineffective Leviathan. The downward spiral started innocently enough. Middle Managers took no risks, kept their heads down, eventually becoming Senior Managers. These new Senior Managers lacked even the most fundamental product development experience. As a result, they make even the seemingly simplest of decisions by committee (after a half-dozen committee meetings of course). Recognizing the ineffective nature of this course of action, the company somehow concluded that their problems were attributable to a lack of codified processes and procedures. So the company immersed itself in process. And procedure. And schedule. And committee. And review board. The result is a bloated organizational morass that cannot respond to any market challenge. An organization that places the value of process, over the value of product. An organization that crushes innovation (which must by necessity challenge convention). An organization that is dying by the crushing weight of it's own self-imposed bloat.

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