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      3.8

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (5,314 total reviews)
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      Tom Polen

      68% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,314 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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      1.0
      Sep 11, 2014

      Horrible Management, low salary, beware

      Anonymous
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's hard to find a pro for a company that has ridiculously low salaries, over works the employees, and has more politics than any other company I have worked for.

      Cons

      - Leadership team is very buddy and known for laying off employees that don't do exactly they say - Promotions are scarce if you aren't american - Hate to say it, but the company participates in religious discrimination. On multiple occasions, I felt uncomfortable because managers were discussing their opinions on my religion.

      1.0
      Aug 18, 2014

      BD -- a place to retire!

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Benefits are pretty good - medical coverage is fairly good, and there's a pension plan. * Stable job - it's almost unlikely that you'll get laid off or fired unless you do something outrageous. * People are usually pretty nice. * Holiday parties are pretty fun.

      Cons

      * Benefits are too good - the pension is a curse. This allows incompetence to fester, thereby slowing everyone down. * People are so unusually nice, that everything turns into a passive aggressive war. The politics is unbelievable - I don't think I've ever gotten a straight answer out of anyone. Every time an executive decision is made, I only hear objections through gossip. * Where's the innovation? There's quite a lot of boast about innovating new products, but it always ends at that. Looking at the last few products released, they're just old products repackaged. * Where's HR? HR has no presence in this organization, and do nothing with personnel escalations.

      2.0
      Aug 13, 2014

      Used to be a great company to work for, but politics and cost-cutting now rule the day.

      Individual contributor (non scientific)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting and socially useful products, challenging work and the chance to contribute to human health, peers tend to be smart and supportive, nice environment, good benefits, flexible hours.

      Cons

      Growth opportunities for individual contributors are lacking, compensation is lagging compared with other companies in the region, work-life balance is eroding due to management changes and operation by crisis. I have recruited two people to the company in the past and now could not do so in good conscience.

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