BD Reviews

Former Employee – worked at BD full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company was very well paying..

Cons – Some micromanaging managers were tough to work with.

Former Employee – worked at BD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Salaryies are OK, benefits are good but slowly eroding, good products and market position, room to grow your career, (but not as much as there used to be).

Cons – Management is top heavy with VPs and do-nothings, outsourcing is becoming an issue. HR is useless and becoming more so. Lack of managerial courage at most levels.

Advice to Senior Management – Enough with the VPs already. Start sharing the profits with your associates or be prepared to lose the best of them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BD full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good steady income and benefits. Excellent work atmosphere, takes great care of employees, allows for good work-life balance. Friendly people. Sincere in intent to help all people live healthy lives.

Cons – Slow to change. Several very complex internal business systems with bureaucratic layers and committees result in generally wise but always slow (extremely slow) decision making. Low-tech products and slow adopt new technologies.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more inspiration than guidance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Strong Financial focus...EPS, EPS, EPS!
Strong positive response to Shareholders and Wall Street

Cons – - Basically achieving Wall Street expectations due health crisis around the globe.....YOU can not live based on WW health crisis.
- DELTA is a fiasco. Talk about innovation; but is not there.
- Competitiors are, by far, more competitive and faster responding to market needs
- Poor leadership / Most of leaders change, and the new group do have other focus - aggresive, and just focus on revenue, bottom line, impacting the overall spirit in the company.
- Most leaders do lost the vision
- Lack of people engagement

Advice to Senior Management – Reshape the vision
Align leadership.... it's lost.
Old school, nothing new. Reinvent yourself.
Too high turnover, to much talent lost at WW level, including US.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BD full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits and job security.

Cons – Little to no career development.
Poor reward/recognition system.
Subpar salaries for scientists, most likely due to location.

Advice to Senior Management – Engage with associates in realistic career development plans.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BD as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Excellent Work life balance. Well managed.

Cons – sometimes feel on the slower side of project execution

Advice to Senior Management – keep doing what your are doing great already.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BD

Pros – Considered a country club..many workers travel long distances to work here...and a lot of people stay over 10+ years

Cons – Hard to move around once inside, unless you're a chosen one. Network from day 1!!!!

Current Employee – been working at BD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good work life balance travel

Cons – long hours, older technology limitted advancement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BD

Pros – Nice campus in nj and that's it.

Cons – Good place to work for a while, but then you will eventually be replaced with a younger, less experience, and cheaper person. Don't expect to rise thru the ranks . Don't expect to retire from BD, and therefore the cash balance retirement plan is a good thing for most.

Advice to Senior Management – Good luck holding onto the EPS

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at BD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very stable, global corporation, widely recognized for being highly ethical. Well known for efficient manufacturing operations. Steady growth in revenues and share price for more than 110 years. Good people that are highly motivated. Interesting, high quality, high value products and services that save lives. Good wages and benefits.

Cons – Very political, process driven, extremely conservative and very bureaucratic organization with slow and frustrating processes and systems. Currently downsizing and outsourcing with frequent layoffs and constant pressure to reduce cost and improve operational effectiveness. Employees are directed to do more and more with fewer and fewer resources resulting in relatively low moral. Small exposed cubicles for most professional employees and a performance review system that does not reward risk takers. Moving to a central service model for HR and IT. Outsourcing IT and R&D services to India and the Asia Pacific Region.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline and simplify work processes and reduce the number of approvals required to implement changes to products and processes. Revise performance review process to recognize and reward successful risk takers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend