CSL Behring Reviews

Former Employee – worked at CSL Behring

Pros – This company has pretty good benefits and a good PTO policy. You get 4 weeks PTO when you start, which is pretty nice.

Cons – If you aren't part of a select group of people, then your chances for advancement are limited. Not a lot of confidence in management.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more recognition for employees to help improve morale. Morale never improved the entire time I worked there, it actually got worse.

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – Nice PTO plan with new employees starting off with 4 weeks and the ability to accrue that to several more weeks, Flexible working time depending on the manager

Cons – A lot of things I'll mention are not exclusive to CSL, but they just feel worse here than other places. The amount of PTO is nice, but you can never take it because of how busy everything always is. In IT the company prides itself on running cheap and thin, however for a company that runs thin there is a huge amount of dead weight. About 70% of the employees in IT are clueless and do nothing but cause problems. This causes an ungodly amount of work to fall upon the employees that do what they are doing causing them to breakdown and leave. Senior Management is an absolute joke just spouting off whatever the latest article in CIO or other popular IT Trade Magazine talked about. And if your not Australian your not going any where at CSL. And they need an actual CIO who reports to the CEO, not a rotation of which ever hapless executive wasn't fast enough to step away from the line.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire a real CIO, Fire all of senior management. Fire all the dead weight and replace them with individuals that know what they are doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CSL Behring

Pros – Good Pay & Benefits
Good Paid Time Off

Cons – No CIO, the next level down is in constant battle with each other
No IT Leadership skills, No Strategy, No Direction
If you are NOT AUSTRALIAN, and to a lesser extent German, you have ZERO chance for career growth

Advice to Senior Management – Hire a CIO, a real CIO, not an interim

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CSL Behring

Pros – Reasonably easy to find information when you need it. Most people are willing to help you if you are respectful and reasonable questions.

Cons – Pay for Interns is Decent. Your first year you start at $9/hr and then it goes up a dollar an hour every year thereafter.

Advice to Senior Management – Although reasonably satisfied overall, Managers might try a little harder to find more interesting work for their interns. Although we all know interns are for tedious grunt work.

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – Solid pipline, stable environment, good benefits

Cons – flat hirachy no room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management – Better knowledge and people management

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – Decent benefits and PTO. There are lots of catered meetings and lunch and learns. Too bad it's making everyone fat...

Cons – Where to begin? No one knows for sure if their job is safe, there is a constant humming of rumors about potential reorg/relocation. Hardly any employee morale and the work/life balance is nonexistant, the worst of any employer I have even worked for.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your staff if you expect them to respect you. In addition, it would be in everyone's best interest if this company was more family friendly.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CSL Behring

Pros – opportunity to grow with education and apply to career.

Cons – Not a set schedule. Work weekends and holidays . Trainning is rushed causing quality of work to go down and turn over to go up .

Advice to Senior Management – Communication in a positive way .Center manager uses fear and intimidation to motivate middle management and employees which is proven to increase turnover and reduce moral in business. Not only do the employees feel it but donors as well.When you project this onto employees your customer's or donors see it and feel it as well causing donor return and collections to decrease along with morale. It has been proven multiple times with profits that when you encourage instead of discourage turnover decreases morale goes up and in turn your donor base and collections will go up . Employees, middle management and return donors increase collections and in turn make center manager look good.Its the center manager that has to cater to employees,donors and middle management not the other way around.

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – some of the best reasons to work for csl is the chance to help save lives utilze my skills in the medical filed and meet sum great people while doing so!

Cons – the downside of working for csl are at the begining of the year when taxe are cumming back there is no bussiness so theres no work for us shortness of hours:(

Advice to Senior Management – keep up the good work and plz give out the gift cards this year again!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – We do have very good benifits and and my salary is decent. In my my personal experience I have had many great oppourtunites there.

Cons – open 7 days a week and 12 to 13 hours a day for 5 days. Miss out a lot of things with my family.

Current Employee – been working at CSL Behring

Pros – Proud to serve their patient population.
Succesful company, not affected by downturn in the economy.
Good amount of time off (though they make it difficult to use and don't pay enough for you to enjoy it).

Cons – Minimal opportunity for advancement. If and when an opportunity does arise, the company philosophy is to hire externally rather than promote internally. The thought being that it's easier for them to train for one position by hiring externally, rather than promoting a person and backfilling their position and ultimately training two people.

Refuse to do in-position promotions, market adjustments or adjust job descriptions.

Departments never seem to budget for career advancement educational courses/training.

Departments and employees are treated differently when it comes to the ability to do flex-time, work-from-home options, family vs. no familly, male vs. female.

No work/life balance.

Horrible company recognition for jobs well done.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize your employees make the company as successful as it is. Create opportunity for employees by encouraging internal hiring/promotions, and be willing to review job descriptions and provide market adjustments every few years.
Realize that we live in a technological world and allow some flexibility to all employees that would allow for better work/life balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend