Bard Reviews

Pros

Strong products. Well received by doctors.

Cons

Very inefficiently run company. Poor or no information systems. Not well suited for competitive nature of medical device sales. Need to improve competitive nature of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Make territory managers more efficient. Free them up to increase time to sell.

Pros

The hard working employees give it a family-feel workplace.

Cons

Lack of communication has become a problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Get to know your employees, not just certain ones. Keep the lines of communication open and be honest, whether the news is good or bad.

Pros

Professional and very corporate driven.

Cons

Aggressive management, time off is a weakness.

Advice to Senior Management

Interesting.

Pros

Faxt pased, exciting, challenging, satisfiying

Cons

Due to the nature of the product, Quality of work must be at the level of perfection at all times.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice.

Pros

Agressive
Competitive salary
Good oppourtunity is you like Mexico or PR

Cons

No investment in the USA
All about profit
understaffed
overworked

Advice to Senior Management

How about going back to respecting employees and not drivng folks until they quit. You can't always drive your rev number by having hiring freezes and no spending guidance.

Pros

Well established, a large company thats been around 100 years. Products are needed in the industry, and they have a great deal of representation out there for them.

Cons

The company doesn't invest enough into R&D to develop new products for the market. When they do they so severely overcharge for them that the customers are turned off by the steep price structure. This makes it significantly harder for the sales professionals and leads to higher than average turnover.

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage divisions to work together and cross pollinate contacts. Invest in new products to bring to market and pay your sales people for doing a good job. (set one comp plan for all sales teams so that there aren't animosities by the lower paid ones for doing as good of a job, or even better in many cases, but earning less than their counterparts.

Pros

I'm a college student, and I appreciate Bard's endless overtime and the ease of requesting personal time off. They're more than willing to transition me to another shift, shuffle my hours, and even bring me to part-time status if necessary in order to accomodate my school schedule each semester.
I've never met a group of Intermediate Managers who are so committed to seeing me succeed in my college career.

Cons

Team Members with senority (those with more than 5 years of experience) usually become thugs and bullies...and it's left unchecked by management. The word "Drama" no doubt found it's roots on the Manufacturing floor at C.R. Bard.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm not in that racket...I'd like to keep my job!