Bristol-Myers Squibb Reviews in New Brunswick, NJ

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Transforming into an agile biopharma

Cons – The transformation is not complete and the baggage from the past needs to be addressed

Advice to Senior Management – Remain focused on the strategy

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

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Ability to learn and grow, emphasis on scientific learning and encouraging knowledge sharing. Management emphasizes research and publication as key to growth and development.

Cons – Being a large institution the process sometimes gets to bureaucratic. Decisions are not always based on sound scientific judgement. Sometimes, it feels like a dog eat dog world.

Advice to Senior Management – Evaluate the process of outsourcing and the actual cost to the company, and don't just go by the estimate of the person who is doing the outsourcing as they will always not account for the other costs and have a vested interest in showing that outsourcing works. IT might work in some cases, but in many others, we are compromising on the integrity on the data and also frustrate the scientist who overseas such outsourced projects.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Work atmosphere, people are very friendly, opportunities for career growth are ample. Opportunities to develop your skills among various business units.

Cons – Communication between different business units is difficult and strained. Each unit acts as a separate company, so working across different business units could be a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management – Should try to ensure that business units work towards the overall benefit of the company and not just the concerned department.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Competitive salaries, good benefits, great for working mothers.

Cons – Little opportunity to cross-train, unless you completely switch departments.

Advice to Senior Management – Remember your company would not be where it is without the people who work for it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Friendly coworkers who are glad to offer their expertise when I ask. About 5 medications in phase 3 clinical trials make the company well positioned for good cash generation in the near future. The company is moving to a biopharma model to ensure sustained growth.

Cons – Long walk to the parking lot for many employees. The company is streamlining to be more agile and has had several rounds of restructuring and layoffs in the past 3 years.

Advice to Senior Management – I believe that Lamberto Andreotti and his executives are a good team and they are guiding the company towards solid performance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – My experience at BMS was very positive. The employees are all really friendly. They encourage a collaborative atmosphere. They want you to learn.

Cons – The work may be a little dry, but that of course is depending on which field you are in. I was in IT so obviously it won't always be fun.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Good people, good products, low stress environement, good work/life balance, current strategy makes sense

Cons – BUREAUCY
Slow decision making
Politics are rampant
I
 don't believe they are sincere about "developing talent", they talk about it but the promotions and money are don't follow.

Every time there is a re-org upper management gives speaches that you know are direct from the consultants mouths.

My particular division is run with the President acting as a dictator (but don't think that's company wide)

Advice to Senior Management – Get serious about fast tracking some younger talent into management in the technical areas. This company seems to be really old currently. And promote based on talent.... not on politics.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – - job in this tough economy
- company is changing around and is starting to be more productive and logical in its work flow
- strong pipeline

Cons – - lots of red tape
- departments do not communicate well between each other
- over management
- more praise for management than for actual accomplishing tasks and science
- disconnect from actual science

Advice to Senior Management – - need less management and more scientists
- praise for solving scientific problems rather than for telling other people to solve the problems
- streamline
- less meetings!

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Benefits used to be good, not that great anymore with all the cuts. Good work culture, and growth opportunities if you have the right skills.

Cons – Too many layers of management. Company has so many departments with so many high level people, one wonders why someone who does not have an interest in the issue look at it objectively and streamline things.

Advice to Senior Management – not sure why we are putting all our eggs in one basket and selling our other business units and buy more risk.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Nice people, resource of big company

Cons – too may levels, promotion doesn't mean much

Advice to Senior Management – make the organization more efficient