BD reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,320 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

67% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,320 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Aug 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, comfortable and clean working environment. Most equipment needs are met without much push back. People are generally friendly. Generous policy for maternity leave/bonding.

Cons

If you are dedicated to your job, concern yourself with mastering the skills necessary to do your job well, "go above and beyond" and show initiative to engage in activities beneficial to the organization you won't be rewarded. You'll get an average review, a "merit increase" barely on pace with inflation and can hope to keep your job when it's layoff time (lay offs and/or reorganizations happen almost every year now). If you say the right things to the right people and remain silent when you see unethical behavior, you have a good chance of being promoted if you wait your turn. You might not be a good scientist, have any idea how to manage people, have much technical expertise or any business sense but it doesn't matter. There's a club and if you're not in it don't expect much but a job to go to every day where you can huddle up with others who are in the same boat and talk about how much you want to find another job every year when you get yet another mediocre review. Maybe you'll be re-orged into another role you would have never applied for in the first place and even start to hate your job.

4.0
Aug 4, 2016

Myself

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work just for my self is reliable 100% because I am my own boss and no one can tell me what I have to do

Cons

Sometime it is a little bit difficult to find customers or grants to pay my "monthly salary"... it depends as like as a lucky drawn

5.0
Aug 4, 2016

Senior Counsel

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic culture with wonderful people

Cons

Consensus-driven culture, which means it often takes awhile for a decision or action to happen.

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