Baxter Reviews

Pros

It is a solid company with many opportunities for career advancement. If you like a lot of structure in the workplace, you'll like it here.

Cons

It is a very large organization that is highly structured, therefore it takes more time to see changes or the results of your work.

Advice to Senior Management

I have a great deal of respect for this organization and their role in the health care industry. Keep your focus on the lives of the people we help.

Pros

Its good company to work. People are very nice

Cons

Very slow advancement in career

Pros

- interesting and diverse product portfolio
- good working conditions and working environment
- patients are important to the company
- capable senior mangement

Cons

- poor HR
- slow pace in promotion, hiring and decision making
- northern illinois locations are too dominant and create constraints for rest of world

Advice to Senior Management

Think truly global, add more non-US people at key corporate positions.

Pros

Best group of engineers I have ever worked with who foster a welcome environment in the medication delivery business group.

Cons

Pace can be slow and the reorganization can cause a lot of confusion. HR and upper management are very disconnected from the engineers and their needs.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to the engineering that backs up the business. Be more in touch with the workers.

Pros

Diverse workgroup
Fast learning curve
Meaningful work
Fast paced work environment
Motivated employee workforce

Cons

Remote location
Salary and benefits
Slow promotions pace

Advice to Senior Management

Be mindful of competitor's salaries

Pros

Benefits, compensation, people, short commute, and decent cafeteria.

Cons

Very difficult to move up if you don't know people (i.e. brown nose) in HR.

Advice to Senior Management

I would say that, although I left of my own volition, Baxter management is very poor. I don't know what happened between 2000 and 2011, during my time there, but the company went from mediocre to very poor within a few years. Some people really like working at Baxter, and that's great for them. My experience was not good, and I feel that it is probably just the beginning for Baxter; things will get much worse before they get better.

Pros

12b company with products that do make a difference in people's lives
Some strong, competent people ther who are not being leveraged

Cons

Incompetence of sr management team
Too much compounding change
No development of people
Promotions bad on subjectivity
Redundancies everywhere and no 2 hands talking to eachother

Advice to Senior Management

Set benchmarks and be held accountable
Avoid constant change
Thank employees on jobs well done
Act like leaders and if you can't, step aside
Remove incompetent leaders from their roles

Pros

Global Pharma/Medical Device Company with a very big presence in key therapy and drug areas. Nice campus (Deerfield, IL), Cafeteria.

Cons

The corporate HQ is known to be very dry, old, and grey...you can say this about the people there also. Moving up the ladder is tough, unless you fall in a certain category and also inner circle. There is lack of leadership that actually cares about people development and movement. Lot of the departments are working in their own little areas and do not talk to the other counterparts from differente divisions. Corporate has no control over its other sites as much, especially with IT.

Advice to Senior Management

Baxter really needs to step up its game when it comes to people development, marketing their drugs in key countries, and of course learning from their mistakes.

Pros

Work-life balance was the highest priority. Their benefits packages were great. They are very highly respected in the industry and the region.

Cons

The workplace was highly political. The company has had ongoing trouble with the FDA for over a decade. They are constantly trying to reorganize in order to address their issues. The management's intelligence and leadership ability is terrible. You will receive recognition for your successes, but that will not be translated into raises or tangible rewards. After your initial offer, do not expect to get many raises.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit. Your employees need to be paid competitively, or they will go to other companies in the area that do the same type of work and will pay them. You have been trying to fix your FDA issues for decades, and clearly, you do not know how to do it.

Pros

Wide range of products, strong competitive position

Cons

Very political organization- frat like environment drives promotional opportunites. Definitely a who you know not what you know driven organization