Did not feel welcome. The first week in San Jose for new hire orientation was a nightmare. Running around campus looking for cell phones, looking for IT people to configure my laptop, looking for HR people to take my taxes out right. Everyone has a job and it seemed like every time I needed someone they were impossible to get a hold of. Management is totally clueless. I worked at BD for 3.5 months, and talked to my manager exactly 2 times. He had no idea how anything was going, and when I called him to tell him I was resigning he was shocked. The technical leadership is awful. My team lead berated me in front of customers, hardly answered any questions, and cursed at me often. Training was impossible. They stuffed a 3-4 week training class into 2 weeks, often going 11-12 hours a day, and the trainees shared instruments that were just totally junk.
So class was shortened and hands on time was halved. Oh yes, and there was an 8 hour practical at the end! If you fail, you're fired! This do or die test was not disclosed during the interview, and when I called HR and asked about it the class facilitator lied and said that was not true. Lastly, there are hardly any SOPs. Everyone does everything a different way; so when one person tells you to do something one way and another person watches you do it the way you learned, that second person tells you that's wrong and shows you their way. When you ask for the manual reference to determine what is called for, there is nothing there.
