Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Reviews

Pros

Industry Average Pay
Good PTO policy - lots of free time
Car for Field Sales people

Cons

Private company - no stock options for higher level positions
Old Boy Network - few people get promoted into management positions unless in network or minority
Promotional opportunities limited by having to move to Connecticut for rotation prior to being considered for additional opportunities and then no guarantee
Health Benefits average
Very conservative - difficult if you are in Sales - afraid of being sued so much that legal runs the sales operation
Upper management poor - Regional Directors do not know how to motivate and some are not analytical or strategic - got their positions because they had been there long enough or a woman was needed as a figurehead

Advice to Senior Management

Someone needs to pay more attention to the 360 surveys that were done - did you read them? HR needs to step it up and concentrate on Senior Leadership - are they doing their job because it all trickles down....

Pros

Benefits are great (full tuition reimbursement, 100% 401k match up to 5%, pension, annual bonus, 4 weeks vacation), well staffed, flexible work hours

Cons

Salary could be better, boring work, career advancement means chasing promotions for years while your job function stays the same.

Advice to Senior Management

The company is run as good as you can expect from a big pharma company. Management here is better than anywhere else I have worked. Keep up the good work.

Pros

They offer 5 weeks vacation to start and competitive salary.

Cons

Boehringer Ingelheim
does not offer any sick time, you have to take pto (vacation) days.

Advice to Senior Management

Next time you are going to do a mass lay off some real notice would be appropriate

Pros

The benefits are outstanding,
Boehringer makes it a priority not to hire too many employees to prevent layoffs. As a result, layoffs are extremely rare for salary employees.
Boehringer pumps 10% of the profits back into R&D which makes my job so much easier and more exciting.

Cons

As Boehringer grows, so grows the political environment.
Management is not well organized, but this can be said for most companies.
Because it is such a good place to work, people do not leave. This can make career development and moving up the ladder very difficult. When a new process is introduced, Boehringer tends to hire someone new rather than develop an existing employee into the new process, slowing any chance of career development/improvement.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with employees. Listen to employees. Reduce pompous attitude toward employees.
Contrary to popular belief, a PhD is not necessary for the job responsibilities in 95% of the positions posted. Different is not a synonym of worse.

Pros

Great Benefits, Good people, but more turnover lately. People here seem to really care about what they are working on.

Cons

Too many hired on resumes, but not managerial skills. Promotion is who you know. Pipeline is not as exciting as it once was.

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of the way or outsource.

Pros

Reasonable pay, decent benefits (although Medical is slipping), fair amount of PTO.
Excellent rank and file employees.

Cons

Senior management can be very inflexible.
Too much time wasted on constantly changing policies.
"Diversity" for all but white males.

Advice to Senior Management

Work Keys program is going to deprive you of good, seasoned veteran employees.
Diversity program is a politically correct joke.