BASF - Good Company, Great Benefits, Flexible Career, Mediocre Management - Anonymous employee BASF Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent, first class benefits. Good base pay. Work-life flexibility. Career flexibility. Brilliant and smart colleagues. Very stable company overall. Ability to excel in technical arena without moving to management track. Diversity of personality types -- including introverts can succeed. Science is respected. Senior leadership comes from many different disciplines -- company is not just run by marketers or accountants.

Cons

Poor incentive compensation. Self-driven careers and career flexibility mean that people and often move into roles for which they are ill-prepared and get stuck there. Need to drive own career means that senior roles are often filled with people who are self-promoters. Employees are functional with high walls between functions -- people are not expected to be business people. Ex-pat assignments (delegations) are very restrictive and not very lucrative. Germans still dominate the company.

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