Bayer Reviews

Pros

personal development, worklife balance, team spirit, flexibility, salary

Cons

can be highly political (reason for my leaving), one must have sales experience for many marketing roles

Advice to Senior Management

appreciate marketers without sales experience more

Pros

Flexibility on your work schedule and if you have appointments or need to work from home here and there.
Benefits are very good.

Cons

Currently, will be responsible for multiple roles within one positions.
Lack of promotional opportunity or rewards for a job well done.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to acknowledge the employees that stand out in a better way. Need to figure out a better way of how global decisions are impacted the teams at a more detailed level.

Pros

They offer a good work life balance, and have a mediocre cafeteria on-site, as well as a small company store.

Cons

Poor corporate culture, lots of disorganization among management and employees. Poor communication of goals throughout the year.

Pros

Attention to employee's needs
Nice staff

Cons

Need to streamline core activities

Pros

The situation is getting better after the new senior management team on board.

Cons

Bad job done to encourage the talented employees. Recognition given to the wrong one. e.g. friends, etc. Good employee is not recognized and motivated. The company could lose good employees.

Advice to Senior Management

I agree to the senior management policy especially some new initiatives. However it's been difficult to implement in small group.

Pros

good reputation
good work life balance
good benefit

Cons

Pay is relatively low compare to industry

Pros

Opportunity to rotate in different functions. Good work life balance

Cons

Matrix organization, relatively slow decision making

Pros

Bayer offered a good place to start a person's career, but lack of opportunities as you move up the ladder.

Cons

As part of the change over the last five years, decision making is mostly done in Germany. Also, promotions are very limited to people in Germany.

Advice to Senior Management

The company was built by inovation and people at all levels. The company needs to get back to listening to all levels of all people

Pros

Very stable, safe environment to work in. Baytown site is proud of it multi-cultural-ism. Many people have worked for more than 30 years in the company. This must count for something.

Cons

Most of the power is centered in head-quarters in Germany. The best work and major decisions are still made there. It does not matter that the locations in satellite sites like ones in US may have capable people.

Pros

Good benefits.
Depending on manager you have the ability to work from home just about as much as you want. As long as you get your work done most are ok with it.
Everyone is very nice and most are willing to help whenever you have questions.
Pretty quiet atmosphere. Everyone kind of puts their heads down and goes to work. Not too much water cooler talk.
Ability to travel to some cool places, but that depends on the group you are in and the projects currently being worked on.

Cons

Getting a promotion is basically non-existent. For younger people that want to move up in the company, it's not going to happen, and it gets very frustrating. You're told to do more and be more involved in other areas outside of your own group and responsibilities, and that will give you more visibility to upper management so you can get a promotion. Well, that's basically the way managers get more work done out of the employees because nothing comes out of it. It's a very top heavy organization and the glass ceiling is much lower than one would expect at a company like this. However, if you've got a lot of years of experience under your belt and try to get into Bayer it'll work out pretty good for you. You'll get a really good salary and you'll be just fine trying to support you family. It's the younger generation here that doesn't stand a chance and as a result several have left in the 5 years that I have been here. I could go on and on about so much more, but what I wrote above will do.

Advice to Senior Management

I know that managers are kind of limited with what they can do for their employees because of all the political garbage that is all around this place, but you HAVE to find a way to encourage your employees and find ways to keep them motivated if you are unable to provide them with raises.