Company mission is wonderful; the leadership in some divisions is clearly not - Anonymous employee BD Employee Review

3.0
Nov 12, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company's overall mission of advancing the world of health rang true during my time there. Good pay and benefits, PTO is fair, work-life balance is great.

Cons

The senior leadership in some divisions is not only incompetent, but also vindictive. Poor financial decision making during the COVID era has meant several layoffs in 2023. A remarkable number of the folks targeted for layoffs have been talented, senior employees who - per BD's own "speak up" mantra - respectfully and constructively challenged some of their leaders' decisions. In my opinion, it cost them their jobs. I am not the only person who believes this to be true. Not all groups at BD are like this - it's a huge company after all. However, this particular group's behavior does speak volumes about executive leadership and HR allowing it to happen, not once, but several times.

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Pros

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Cons

Constant backorders due to poor management. Likely to have more changes in leadership team(s) than years spent at the company. Unethical leaders that act like high school bullies and cling to titles rather than create a supportive environment. Employees constantly left in the dark due to lack of meetings or failure of leaders to even learn what their teams are working on. Constant reorgs with no consideration of impact to teams or business continuity. Frequent cases of falsified performance reviews to push out whistleblowers with complicit HR teams. Quality policy is a joke. RTO push to high COL areas with no relocation support, onboarding, seat and laptop assignment - only to lay off entire teams within a year just to repost the same position and ask laid off employees to re-apply.

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