BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,294 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,294 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
Jan 21, 2026

Horrible company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nothing. leadership has no clue what they're doing

Cons

they'd sooner lay off people than get their act together.

3.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exposure to many functions. Lots of opportunities to learn many things because you wear many different hats.

Cons

Highly matrixed, decision making is super slow.

2.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some good people in the company that are great to work alongside and learn from.

Cons

BD is incredible at wasting talent, promoting mediocrity, and ensuring their rolling layoffs always cause the best people to leave suddenly, in the middle of the night, jeopardising your program. I shouldn't have strong opinions on the leadership of a company but good god this lot are beyond their best-before dates. Maybe that's why half the C-suite "retired" or left recently. The current business focus is to ensure that the stock goes up, whatever the costs. So the beatings will continue until it's above 220. I hope you all like being fed into the grinder. Limerick specifically isn't a nice office. The canteen is foul, ambient noise makes it hard to focus, there's no parking, and the building layout makes it impossible to navigate.

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