Bard Reviews

Pros

There are a lot of intelligent people working toward solving some complex business problems

Cons

The culture isn't very conducive to fun, or socialising

Advice to Senior Management

Invest more time, opportunity in the internship program

Pros

Nice and friendly people; good communication between regulatory/marketing/engineering/quality folks; good growth prospects given competent management of company

Cons

Basically the only downside is limited career growth within the company. That's not to say you can't experience personal growth and learning, but there are limited roles within the company and not a lot of turn-over.

Pros

Good benefits, overall nice atmosphere to work, good work life balance but it depends on a group

Cons

Very few opportunities for growth and development

Pros

Benefits
Industry leader in almost all product lines
Pay
Great Golden Handcuffs
Mature management style
Great perks
Great morale among peers

Cons

Products are somewhat uninteresting
Training could be far better
Ongoing development could be better
Unreasonable amount of account maintenance falls on sales

Pros

Excellent company, great place to learn skills, pay average, lots of favoritism, glad that I worked there and was able to take my skills and knowledge elsewhere.

Cons

Favoritism rules, only cost of living increases for above average performance. Communication of corporate goals and objectives is not always sucessful here.

Advice to Senior Management

Share the wealth- it looks like there's more than enough to go around!!! Your employees have contributed to your financial prosperity - recognize them!!!

Pros

Bard is a vibrant organization that is facing tremendous growth opportunities. After a few bumpy years, the atmosphere is again becoming electric thanks to a solid management team and several strong projects. Bard has been hiring despite the downturn in the economy and has recently brought in some great talent. The employees are friendly. .

Cons

The company includes some of the politics that you would expect from a large organization. Managers get offices, others live in a seemingly endless sea of cubicles.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat all business units and departments fairly. Upgrade working facilities/environment when able. Champion innovation not only in R&D but in all departments.

Pros

- Financially strong
- Good benefits
- Ethical business practices
- Decent pay
- Good work enviroment

Cons

- Poor cohesion between Divisions & Operations - neither group seems to understand the other.
- Excess corporate interference with division operations
- Too much focus on "scientific management" deters entrepreneurial culture

Pros

Bard is really doing some amazing things for patients and healthcare professionals and it is a pleasure working somewhere where the first line of the mission statement is "patient" and not profit.

Cons

If you are in the finance arena, things work differently at Bard; being very good at your job is not necessarily the road to promotion, but politics- who likes you versus who doesn't even when the job is performed well. The biggest con to the company is that information is a secret and management does not share it

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your non executive employees better and let people know what is going on within the organization so people can do their jobs

Pros

There are very few real strong reasons to work at Bard compared to other companies within the medical device field. The most positive is that they do have a solid portfolio of products. In fact, some of them are the best in the industry. But, it's not just having strong products that make working at a company worthwhile.

Cons

The upper management team is dillusional about a number of things including quota, marketplace, motivation and economics.

Advice to Senior Management

Negative motivation will result in short term gain, at best. But, it leaves long term anymosity.

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.