BASF Reviews
70% would recommend to a friend
(1895 total reviews)
Michael Heinz
81% approve of CEO
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- "good benefits and everyone at the plant is welling to help out and try to find solutions." (in 388 reviews)
- "Pay and benefits are good but lagging in the industry now as they have stagnated for long" (in 158 reviews)
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- 5.0FEATURED REVIEWMay 16, 2023Front Desk ReceptionistCurrent EmployeeMorrisville, NC
Pros
Friendly worker Great pay Nice environment Great benefits
Cons
Nothing , this is the best job I had
- 5.0Nov 8, 2023Project ManagerFormer Employee, more than 8 yearsWhite Plains, NY
Pros
flexible hour and nice people
Cons
Slow to respond to people and too much management changes
- 4.0Nov 28, 2023Marketing ManagerCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsAmes, IA
Pros
Great Benefits, Good Growth Opportunity
Cons
Slow Moving Company, Change is slow
- 5.0Nov 21, 2023Coater OperatorCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsHuntsville, AL
Pros
Good Pay for Huntsville, plenty of overtime opportunities, KPI bonus at the end of every month. Easy to advance within company. Fantastic benefits and 6% 401k match.
Cons
12 hour shifts & work every other weekend,
- 1.0Nov 1, 2023EngineerFormer Employee, more than 8 yearsFreeport, TX
Pros
Good place to start in the chemical industry to get your foot in the door but don't stay too long. Pay and benefits are good but lagging in the industry now as they have stagnated for long-term employees. The company in general is too big to fail. Diversity and Inclusion is great but Equity is not (one size fits all).
Cons
Used to be run like a small family business locally despite being a huge global company and had seasoned and supportive managers. Those days are over. Constant job eliminations, reorgs, cost-cutting, and turnover over the past 5 years or so has made the workload overwhelming and the environment hostile and cutthroat. Engineering department was disbanded so interplant learning, development, and communication was eliminated. The technical engineering roles became stale, dead-ends. Pay increases are negligible so you eventually have to leave before inflation eats you alive. The competition among employees for meager raises has destroyed all sense of teamwork. BASF has a dim view of modern flexible hybrid schedules so multiple hours of infuriating gridlock in construction zones every single day in urban areas like Houston metro was strictly mandated. Absolutely zero remote/hybrid work balance was the norm for much eligible staff despite a barrage of messaging and policies to the contrary. The focus is on lengthy hours on-site instead of accomplishments. Most promotions are not home-grown BASF and come from other companies. Offices and production facilities are badly run-down from years of budget and staff cuts.
- 2.0Nov 22, 2023EngineerFormer EmployeeMichigan Center, MI
Pros
lots of time to start carrier
Cons
not a lot of growth
- 3.0Nov 20, 2023Processing OperatorFormer Employee, more than 10 yearsParma, ID
Pros
Good pay. Great Coworker. Great hours
Cons
Management doesn't care about employees, only numbers
- 5.0Nov 20, 2023Senior Scientist IICurrent EmployeeCharlotte, NC
Pros
Benefits and culture is a major positive
Cons
Sometimes beauracy slows decisions diwn
- 4.0Nov 17, 2023Lab TechnicianCurrent EmployeeWyandotte, MI
Pros
Good people, flexible hours, good management, can move up
Cons
Work with dangerous chemicals, hard to get a job here
- 4.0Nov 14, 2023Senior Mechanical EngineerFormer EmployeeGeismar, LA
Pros
multi cultures, good to learn from other talented
Cons
too many organizations/depts involved that leads to too many voices and low efficiency
BASF Reviews FAQs
BASF has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 6,713 reviews left anonymously by employees. 70% of employees would recommend working at BASF to a friend and 55% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
70% of BASF employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated BASF 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at BASF to be culture, career development, benefits and the cons to be workplace, senior leadership, management.
