Bayer reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,546 total reviews)
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Bill Anderson

63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Bayer has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,546 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bayer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Oct 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If your actually hired by the company a good deal. But the likelihood of you ever being more than a contractor is slim and none. There are really very little in the way of good or positive reasons to work for Bayer Corp in North America.

Cons

A huge company that only cares about top people. Little to no focus or coordination between divisions. They treat employees poorly and contractors at sub-human standards. There is NO upward mobility. They do not recognize hard work or sacrifice. Management is so consumed with their own petty squabbles and finger pointing they do no actual employee management.

1.0
Oct 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some hard working and dedicated colleagues still remain at "worker" levels. It is sometimes possible to work around Bayer's obstructive bureaucracy.

Cons

Rounds of layoffs are branded as "YYYY Transformation" and come every other year have only added to Bayer's dysfunctional organization. Ineffective executive leadership, always behind the times are now implementing mass outsourcing and globalization programs that were tried and abandoned years ago by competitors.

1.0
Mar 25, 2021

Come on down to H1B town

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a household name for your resume. Sure, the company is infamous, but any press is good press, right?

Cons

HR encourages us to list a master's degree as a requirement on positions that don't really need one. That way, they can go to the government and say, "Look, we can't find qualified people! You MUST let us bring over some more H1Bs!" Then, after we've passed over some good candidates who had the misfortune of being US citizens, we bring over someone who meets our inflated requirements (on paper) and has a master's degree (from a diploma mill). By a strange coincidence, they happen to cost less than all of the US citizens that we passed over earlier.

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