Pros
In general, the people who work at BD are great people. The equipment is fascinatingly complex and always interesting to work with.
Cons
The turn over rate from operations through all of management is super high. This leads to constant rehashing old ideas/approaches that haven’t worked it the past, but new comers think they can make it work with several other has failed at the exact same thing. Recently (early 2023) , high level corporate management changed and forced an entire restructure through the company. After having 5 different managers over 4 months and having my work schedule abruptly change without reason, I decided to get a different job. During that 4 month span, there were multiple times when I asked “whose my manager” and none of them knew. Lastly, corporate has no sense of loyalty to their employees. I had good managers why o went to bat for me, but still failed against corporate. End result, I got screwed (5 years ago) on a pay adjustment even though I had documented/written agreements with my manager, HR, plant manager and others. The reason given was everyone who I had written documentation from didn’t work there any more so unenforceable. Another issue with the massively high turnover rate… Job specific, but as an engineering tech (everyone else calls it a controls engineer), you are capped out. There is no career ladder past there. BD total, if you don’t have an engineering degree, you won’t get far here. Anything above a production supervisor they require a STEM (mostly engineer specific) degree.