Bristol-Myers Squibb Reviews

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Not located in a great area, NJ rural area is not a great place to live.

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Large sales teams, big pharma environment still exists

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Losing some of the heart and soul as key leaders depart and years of layoffs erode employee engagement.

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People who work hard are continuously overlooked in favor of those employees who are buddies with senior management. People who do the absolute bare minimum are rewarded, while those who go the extra mile don't see it reflected in their annual review or bonus. Employees are aware of rating changes during review calibration that did not accurately reflect performance in order to benefit the "favorites." This seriously hurts morale and has a negative impact on retention. Retaliation is prevalent when complaints are made.

Management doesn't do a good job communicating, so things tend to be all over the place and expectations can be confusing. Some managers dislike data sharing, meaning that groups often end up doing unnecessary work.

In addition, there are minimal opportunities to advance within the department (again, unless you have friends in high places).

Health insurance options are abysmal.

Science isn't valued as much as would be expected for a company that wants to be a leader in the industry. Many scientists present data without statistical analysis or duplicate experiments and tend to jump to conclusions.

Cuts to travel budgets mean fewer opportunities to go to conferences. Management has also called for a reduction in the employee recognition system "Bravo," claiming that people are over-rewarded and aiming to reduce reward values for hard work.

BMS claims to strive for a culture of inclusivity, but kept on a senior employee after multiple complaints were filed for him harassing female employees. Female employees were instead moved.

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Overly political culture. You need to be from sales and over 50 years old to have a say in anything strategic. No upward mobility due to a lack of cutting poor talent. Poor leadership for all the same reasons. If you like being paid too much for no impact, but plenty of political BS, this is the place for you.

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Work life balance , re-orgs not done well

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Company no longer staying in CT

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Too big to get out of their own way

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Supply chain management team is dysfunctional along with senior workers. Nobody bothers to train you properly with the job function there is a bunch of tribal knowledge workers that keep to them selves in order for job security. Very unsafe environment to work in as management doesn't care how the work get's done warehouse is always a mess. Employees are constantly stealing overtime and management does nothing about it nobody pulls there weight there. I wouldn't recommend working in the warehouse at Devens lower level employee's do all the work where senior workers abuse overtime.

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Going through 'vision 2020' which is another way of saying they are downsizing. Career growth is non existent and the employees from NJ think Floridians are uneducated idiots that are only capable of transactional work.