BD Reviews

Pros

excellent environment
good compnsation
good benefits
surburban location
beautiful building

Cons

management somewhat petty
often unimportant rules are used to quench important issues

Pros

Overall most employees are best to work with in the business.
Company provides quality medical devices.
Company cares about their customers.

Cons

Limited career advancement opportunities.
Seems to be a stressful work environment.
Development better cycle of new product mix offering to customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the feedback from field sales organization.
Marketing respond to customer needs, concerns with good economic and clinical solutions

Pros

nice working environment good opportunities

Cons

too bureaucratic big company style

Advice to Senior Management

keep values

Pros

Business of healthcare serves a larger purpose. Company and the leaders in it really try to "do the right thing" when presented with a leadership challenge.

Cons

Lots of transformation and change right now might make it feel chaotic.... it should eventually settle down and they should be able to capitalize on the transformation to fuel business growth.

Pros

Flexible work schudule. Personal health and family comes first, and management will support you.

Cons

re-structuring taking jobs in IT overseas to India and China.

Pros

1. Great engineers/scientists in R&D (smart, diverse, well educated, talented).
2. Good benefits.
3. It has a great potential of being a good place to work. It offers a possibility to improve people's health by developing new cost-effective medical devices.

Cons

Ineffective senior and middle management in Medical Surgical Systems (the largest division) is a major obstacle to innovation and growth (there are a few notable exceptions of great managers but they are isolated or relatively new). Management is more interested in preserving the status-quo: their old comfortable positions and connections. All projects are simply cost-cutting projects or minor improvement projects. There is a great fear of doing anything new. Managers pretend that they support innovation, but their record is really poor - nothing innovative in the last 5 years. It is time for a new R&D leader.

R&D engineers in Medical Surgical Systems completely distrust management. More than 50% of Medical Surgical R&D engineers left during the last 5 years (have you noticed that R&D always has job openings?). The R&D job is not challenging. Engineers and scientist with advanced degrees are often asked to do the most trivial jobs. Many people left because they were afraid of loosing their skills or/and they realized that nothing will change.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to improve innovation record in R&D, talk directly with R&D engineers, junior managers or new employees (people outside of the status-quo). Rebuild their trust. Encourage people to speak up and disagree with you.

Hold management accountable, e.g. develop 1-2 NEW products (not minor modifications) per year or leave. Do not be afraid to try something new. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time (3-5 years?) when competitors from emerging economies will overtake you!

BDX leaders need to be passionate, inspiring and actually understand healthcare issues.

Pros

pay was ok but review process was poor

Cons

deceitful management looked right at you as they lied

Pros

Decent benefits, anyone not in a management role was great to work with, nice facilities (dry cleaning, cafeteria, gym, picnic tables outside for warmer weather, etc).

Cons

Everything not mentioned in the "Pros" section belongs here.
There is NO plan for sustainable, long-term growth. Every engineering project in Medical-Surgical Systems (BD's largest business unit) is nothing more than a cost-savings initiative when you get down to it. Even the "new" products they're rolling lately out are just lower-cost options.
Management is so risk-adverse that new ideas are essentially frowned upon. They would rather wait for the next big idea to take off somewhere else, and then force their engineers to work around another company's patents to come up with a competing product, or simply buy the company with the big idea. In many ways, management did not trust their engineers to come up with ideas and new products.
Management constantly complained about money issues, even though the company had just made record profits.
Higher education was valued to a fault. There is no reason for someone with a Ph.D in Engineering to be doing menial tasks that even a half-witted intern could do in their sleep.

Advice to Senior Management

If BD's management really wants this company to succeed again, then they pretty much all need to leave. Management, from the lowest level, to the top, pretty much all need to go. There are a few exceptions, but they are honestly what is wrong with BD.

Pros

Nice facilities
Good work life balance
Corporate Mission Statement
Good people to work with

Cons

Weak pipeline for new products
Layoffs not impacting the ones responsible for the above
Too risk averse
Too slow to respond to competition

Advice to Senior Management

Look at your senior marketing and R&D people and ask why they can't deliver sales growth opportunity....cost out programs to drive net earnings will not work forever....

Pros

Competitive Salaries, Good Oppurtunities for Professional and Career Growth, Strives to be one of the Best Places to Work, Always train employees to do the right things, and Intolerance for any Misbehaviour by the Associates.

Cons

No longer a 8-5 job and most often Overloaded with Work and quite often required to work on Weekends / Holidays. Not so easy to advance in Career in some departments due to fewer leadership positions and big pool to Compete.

Advice to Senior Management

IT Management - Too much stress on documentation and compliance even in non-regulated functions which is killing the troops. Could do better job if we straighten out the priorities.