BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,302 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,302 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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1.0
Aug 29, 2025

Don't Bother

Recommend
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Pros

Company car That's really all I can say

Cons

Bad management Change sales commission structure every year to make sure you don't get paid No support when things go wrong If you are debating switching to this company from your current sales company or are looking to start a medical sales career don't bother. They don't help their staff and change the commission structure every year to make sure you don't make money. This year they changed it to a bucket system where they withhold your commission and pay it out quarterly as earned and with the potential for bigger checks later in the year. Yesterday we were supposed to get one of our final big checks and the day before payday they told everyone - even people ranked third in the company - that they wouldn't be receiving it because it wasn't ours to begin with due to a line in our commission structure contract that said that it is subject to change at any time. That is what the HR department told me word for word. They gave no warning that this was going to happen so I had no idea until the day before. I'm not sure if it's going under or what but just don't start here expecting to make any money just because it's a major company. Run for the hills

2.0
Feb 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary is on the higher end for industry

Cons

Nearly everything is bad. Worst management I’ve experienced in my career by far. Not just in the group but across the board. Re-orgs happen so often to prevent promotions. If they shift you around you basically start over. Many notice a trend of promotions only going to friends or people who’ve been reported to HR for issues. HR knows all this so don’t bother going to them. Also working with the PMO group might be the most toxic of it all. The worst project management that you can hardly even call it project management. The worst people skills from that team. They always layoff people but never the ones who are creating this toxic culture. They keep those because guess what, this toxic people beat everyone else down and management sees that as a win for getting stuff done. Instead of seeing how miserable everyone is afterwards. Nobody is proud to complete a project. Just relief that we will get a break from being harassed by the PM.

1.0
Jan 31, 2025

Stay away or get out.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people are good.

Cons

Zero loyalty Awful culture Poor business decisions. Leadership is awful

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