Bayer Diabetes Care Reviews

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Provides insight into diabetes care with innovative products

Cons – Not enough benefits for employees.

Advice to Senior Management – To provide a more stable environment for employees

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

I have been working at Bayer Diabetes Care full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great flexibility with work schedule. Still a good company name to have on a resume.

Cons – Dying company with no long-term strategy. Decisions made in haste without consideration for long-term effects. Management keeps eliminating staff and piling more on the people who stay. Very low pay scale compared to competitors. Low morale.

Advice to Senior Management – You should have sold it last year because the bid price was realistic although your selling price was not!

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

I have been working at Bayer Diabetes Care full-time for more than a year

Pros – Generally speaking, the people at the company are very nice. There's no backstabbing and there seems to be a good team spirit. The office is conveniently located. The company seems to want to try to make improvements and there are some nice, people-oriented activities - the BEAT is a group that arranges outings to sporting events, shows, sponsors ice cream socials, etc.

Cons – There are a lot of processes which tend to make getting the work done somewhat tedious. The company is moving to New Jersey which may/may not work for everyone. The market for glucose meters is declining overall and the product is viewed by a lot of healthcare providers as a commodity which makes marketing a challenge.

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

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – Concerned for employees satisfaction and happiness. Often held socials during the work day to boost satisfaction and management always was checking in saying hi.

Cons – Two locations in Tarrytown about ten minutes apart. Both locations had tight/cramped working condition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – The company has good salary and benefits, good engineers to work with. The relocation package that is offered is excellent.

Cons – The work is good but incompetent management, that tries to find someone to blame all the time. Hence, there is culture of distrust in the company

Advice to Senior Management – Get out of your cubicles and work in the lab. Insteading of spending time in so many costly meetings try to meet one on one with employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – The group I worked with was professional. Most of all, everyone acted like a team by sharing the work load.

Cons – Due to integration multiple positions were eliminated, which lead to increased work loads and longer hours. As with any company, processes and approvals added to delay in task completion.

Advice to Senior Management – I enjoyed working for Bayer and believe that management did the best that they could considering the circumstances. Thanks for the experience.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – 1. its big name makes you kick off career one step ahead of the peers. 2. BIg company implies a structured and standard practice. It is good to learn some routine before creating your own style.

Cons – 1, hierarchy, hardly can I move up to top of the ladder.

Advice to Senior Management – To be a more internationalized company, hiring people with more diversified background.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – The Bayer Corp. in Northern IN, began as Miles Labs. Miles was a family owned Corp. that had been in the Elkhart, IN area for a hundred years. It was one of the highest paying places to work in the area, good bebifits, and they took good care of all thier employee's, management and hourly, if you got hired at Miles you were set for life. Bayer bought out Miles Labs and thats how many of the people working in this area became Bayer employee's.

Cons – Since the Bayer corp. has taken over, 1000's of jobs have been lost in this area. plants have been closed and torn down. People that had given most of thier life, loyal emploee's, that would go the extra mile to do the job right, no matter what it took, were told thier jobs were moving someplace else so the Corp. could make more money.

Advice to Senior Management – Times are tough, money is tight, family's are loseing thier house's left and right in America, because of health care, gas, grocery's, you have a great hourly work force, with a lot of knowledge. Tap into it, and Use it! Give them the chance to make extra money. You have many management people that have worked for other company's. Those poeple have alot of knowledge where they have seen things work and not work and the reason it didn't work. Get on board and lets do the job. The Corp, management, and hourly are all here to do one thing, MAKE MONEY. Let's do it together.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Bayer Diabetes Care

Pros – They are more like a family then a company, been with them for many years, watched alot change, went from the top of the world to layoffs. There are more people coming in lately that have a strange manangement style, almost like the kids that were the bullies in 5th grade never grew up. Luckly there are few of them and like most bullies once you stand up to them they usually leave you alone.

Cons – The worst thing I can think of is poor assessiblity for promotion, there is no career path, even the website for HR has no webpage when you click on career paths. Knowledge sharing is also important but there seems to be very little of it.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication listen to the bottom they are the ones make you look good.

I worked at Bayer Diabetes Care full-time for more than a year

Pros – Innovative ideas from any individuals at any level were actually used after weighing the pros and cons and with all the necessary modifications after further ideations.
Lot of learning from working across verticals over a period of time
Corporate policies were transparent and equal for all

Cons – Identification of right potential in people at times in missing
Implementation at the country level take a long time.
The political and environmental reviews at the country level need to be more realistic

Advice to Senior Management – The policies of the organisations need to be implemented at the correct time.
The political and environmental reviews at the country level need to be more realistic to get proper marketing support from the global

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