BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,286 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 5,286 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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5K reviews
2.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some good people in the company that are great to work alongside and learn from.

Cons

BD is incredible at wasting talent, promoting mediocrity, and ensuring their rolling layoffs always cause the best people to leave suddenly, in the middle of the night, jeopardising your program. I shouldn't have strong opinions on the leadership of a company but good god this lot are beyond their best-before dates. Maybe that's why half the C-suite "retired" or left recently. The current business focus is to ensure that the stock goes up, whatever the costs. So the beatings will continue until it's above 220. I hope you all like being fed into the grinder. Limerick specifically isn't a nice office. The canteen is foul, ambient noise makes it hard to focus, there's no parking, and the building layout makes it impossible to navigate.

1.0
Jan 15, 2026

Nepotism and Laziness Everywhere

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Interesting work, you'll interact with a lot of different people. - At the end of the day, your job does make a difference. - You will wear a lot of hats.

Cons

- Laughable pay raises. You won't keep up with inflation. - Everything is being outsourced, and none of them can do the basics of their job. - Hard workers will be passed up for people who pretend to work. Failing upwards is a constant trend.

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