Bristol-Myers Squibb Reviews

Pros

high caliber of professional leaders
good work ethics
warm culture

Cons

flexibility & mobility is a must if you want to clim the career ladder

Pros

Company is focused on unmet medical needs. Is trying to take the best from big pharma and biotech. Growing through acquisitions of specific molecules and companies

Cons

The company is still large and sometimes it is difficult to make things happen quickly or smoothly. The string of pearl initiative is a great idea but sometimes hard to integrate into BMS way of doing things.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to work on the BioPharma strategy and string of pearls. However include more detailed oriented people in the decisions.

Pros

Work life balance, opportunities if you're willing to work for them, good tuition reimbursement, on site child care, on site cafeteria, beautifully kept sites

Cons

It take a lot to be recognized for outstanding work, inter group communication (and sometimes communication within a group) seems lacking, on site child care is expensive unless you're in a high salary grade position

Pros

Growth opportunity and work time flexibility

Cons

poor raises and not a friendly work environment

Advice to Senior Management

Be more hands on and fair to all employees

Pros

benefit is good, salary is low, life is easy

Cons

full of politics, no developing

Advice to Senior Management

treat internal people as good as external

Pros

Good people, great work/life balance

Cons

Constant changing in leadership, inconsistent in direction for field reps, sales people held responsible for everything that goes wrong even when following direction of senior management

Pros

Good benefits and interesting work.

Cons

Too many layers for decision making. Limited opportunities to advance professionally.

Pros

BMS has a promising future, especially in Oncology. The company is advancing my career, which I estimate greatly. With my work, I can make a meaningful difference for patients.

Cons

This is difficult to say, because I feel very positively about the company- maybe the complexity/speed of decision making? That's maybe a common thing in all sizeable companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue on this path, continue to deliver the pipeline, accelerate the rollout of the strategy. Be even more present in the public- support of volunteer work, charitable work, donations/foundations / philanthrophy.

Pros

good pay, good benefits, great culture
supportive training programs
exciting pipeline

Cons

pressure,
unrealistic objectives
a too big structured company so that decision process seem paralyzed

Advice to Senior Management

senior management struggles with changes and does not focus on real operational duties.

Pros

Meaningful work and good advancement.

Cons

The mission is certainty but change is inevitable.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay the course.