BD reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,313 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,313 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
Oct 25, 2017

Burned out R&D

Recommend
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Pros

The people working in R&D were great. You are working on products that save lives. Good PTO policy, flexible schedule.

Cons

Chaotic direction from upper management, burned out R&D. Very little work/life balance. Layoffs every September since BD merged with Carefusion. They seem to be outsourcing everything. IT Service is bad. It takes weeks to get anything resolved.

1.0
Mar 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People at the working level are great with good intentions

Cons

Micromanagement, inefficient and extremely wasteful processes pushed on workers to protect inexperienced mgmt egos, rude managers that don't help but make things more complicated, training demands that are not relevant to job, absolutely no work life balance, protected inexperienced cliques in the office- no real team environment, very very high turnover- people leave frequently. The office is just over their heads with extremely poor leadership ....it's unfortunate. Very demanding n political clients

1.0
Feb 25, 2017

Bad Decision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Hard to think of any. Work life balance isn't too bad, holiday policy is moderately generous and the hours per week is better than average.

Cons

Company has no idea where it is going, how to get there and what to do when it arrives. They have outsourced and off shored all the core parts of the business. Things are designed, made, repaired, supported and the whole IT system is run by other companies. The company is just a rudderless shell that is drifting on the tide. Internally the company is known as "Bad Decision" or "Bad Design". There is a consensus or paralysis, within the business. Meetings are a joke, dozens of people turn up late, there is never an agenda, the same topics as the last meeting are discussed, no one takes a decision and if they do it's only a reversal of the last one, there are no action items and no minutes. The whole process is repeated at the next meeting and nothing happens.

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