CSL Behring Reviews

Pros

Good growth potential, focused on making things happen. Decisions get made, usually in a sound business like manner. Sometimes too focused on micro-management by senior management

Cons

Decision making not transparent. Not competitive with compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Improve competitiveness wrt compansation, scope and accountabilities

Pros

Smart , committed people. Very interesting suite of plasma products. Superior products that do good things for people around the world however many of the products are not well-known

Cons

Little budget, really no way to develop as a prof'l or grow in the job, no recognition for hard work achievement

Advice to Senior Management

promote from within, realize how hard many people are working with no acknowledgement, allow some more flexibility in working hours

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.

Pros

Somewhat flexible hours, great benefits, 401k, different options for insurance, great vacation, great training, great co-workers, an overall good place to work.

Cons

Long hours, not many opportunities for advancement, very little recognition for a job well done, pay is low compared to other pharma companies

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!

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.

Pros

The PTO policy is still very good compared to other companies. And the 401K match is on the high end.

Cons

CSL treats IT like dirt. Yes, CSL is a pharma company, so IT is not it's core business. But IT is the at the foundation of everything that it does. It needs to open it's eyes and start putting IT are a fore thought instead of an after thought.

The biggest problems are that CSL only looks at situations in the extremely short term, refusing to do any long term thinking. As such many solutions or problems are only exasperated several months down the line, which just causes millions and millions of dollars to be needlessly wasted. Which is bad, but whatever I still my pay check, but that forces 60 - 80 work weeks to be the norm. Weekend work is routine. For that additional work recognition is not given. IT is a machine to be run into the ground.

Since I've been here moral has gotten worse and worse each year. Senior Management will say the political BS in front of crowds, but in smaller more relaxed settings they will make jokes and comment on how they make things go lower, as if it's a game.

If your a perspective employee looking at CSL IT, i would strongly advise you to look else where.

Advice to Senior Management

Take your head out of the sand and start acting like adults. Treating your employees with respect, treating IT with respect, and thinking more than 3 seconds ahead.

Pros

I enjoy the ones I wk with alot I have met alot of new friends and have alot of olds ones too. csl is like my second family,My husband always says if they change the locks or closed down i'll be @ the door trying to get in because I care about that place more then my family its almost true but my does come frist then my other family friends @ csl and the donors. Ive wk @ csl since 91 and i guess i'll be they until they make me go, Thanks csl family for letting be part of it.

Cons

I wish ins. didnt go so high I use to have it but is now to high for what we make. i wish we still had retirement plan. and I mess being able to wear difine color uniforms blue all the time is sad.

Advice to Senior Management

treat everyone the same

Pros

Worked with flexible schedule. Quick opportunity for raises.

Cons

Forced to work weekends. Managers to inexperienced

Pros

Personal Time Off policy is good - 4 weeks.
401K match is generous.
Health benefits are pretty good.

Cons

Salary is lower compared to market
Unchallenging work.
Projects take forever to launch and cannot gain traction.
Moral is low, turnover in IT is rising.
No path upward unless you have a GodFather pulling you up.

Advice to Senior Management

Work with HR to adjust IT salaries to market levels.
Make IT management interact with the business, rather than press the few actual workers for capacity.