Bristol-Myers Squibb Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent work life balance. Startup-like culture.

Cons – Cultural problems being in Puerto Rico. A lot of gossip.

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

Former Employee – worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Employee opinions welcomed, good benefits, free BMS prescriptions

Cons – None, overall good company to work for

Advice to Senior Management – Bad choice 3rd party outsourcing distribution services, BMS employees actually cared. You get what you pay for.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – BMS is a solid place to work. company has a good strategy and positive environment. they are known for being a "relationship" company. Highlights are: Smart, caring people; most people are fairly autonomous; an appreciation of work life balance.

Cons – A few people at VP roles who are bottlenecks; everyone seriously overworked.

Advice to Senior Management – Flatten the organization more;reduce workload, not just head count.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work life balance, not really much else

Cons – Benefits, process orientated. Over-structure creates some challenges, but not impossible to work through

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Pros – Great environment, long time employees, people love working here

Cons – Slow to adapt and innovate.

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 full-time for less than a year

Pros – The company is great from the top down. The managers really care about the people. I highly recommend the company.

Cons – The work life balance could be better, but thats the only con I have with the company.

Advice to Senior Management – We need more help to reduce the current work load.

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

Pros – Great opportunities, good work/life balance

Cons – large company, fighting for visibility

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – No good reason to work here. Use it as a means to an end

Cons – Inexperienced management, people who make decisions have no clue as to how to make an educated decision. Ruin lives of employees and don't care about employees, awful culture one of the worst in the industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop making decisions based upon who you like. These people are seldom qualified and ruin the lives of employees. Stop with the primary care mentality and role plays for the specialty sales force

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

Current Employee – been working at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company offers a great work/life balance which is hard to find at other places in today's market.
People are generally friendly and easy to talk to.
They offer great amenities on such as dry cleaning and a gym (which is partly subsidized).

Cons – There is a very hierarchical structure in place.
Management is not quick to listen to ideas not generated from their own level or higher.
Slow to adapt to change.
Rates people on their ability to innovate, yet stifles innovative ideas.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great experience and education on selling. I had great sales training, and many great colleagues. Most of the managers were very pleasant to work with. The salary and benefits were very generous. I was able to manage my own time as long as I met my numbers. My manager worked with me about once per month, and was a great coach.

Cons – The company does not have a culture which embraces hiring reps from within the company who are good reps in good standing. Once you come in as a territory business manager, there you will stay unless you are willing to go back to the home office. Territory changes every year, bonus plan changed every year, with senior management making it very difficult for good reps in geographies or states where there were a number of managed care restrictions to earn much or compete well.

Advice to Senior Management – Corporate culture starts at the top: when neuroscience division was eliminated, you had many very talented reps who could have easily transitioned over to other divisions where there were almost 200 available jobs! Senior management should have insisted that good reps being displaced from one division, be hired into available positions in other divisions. This should be the culture, if senior management truly valued their employees as they had repeatedly stated.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend