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Bristol Myers Squibb

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BMS cares about patients, but do they care about people? - Anonymous employee Bristol Myers Squibb Employee Review

3.0
Oct 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent science, groundbreaking medicines. Workers who care and are passionate about their jobs.

Cons

Massive amounts of uncertainty. Especially poor communication style of current CEO- who supposedly strives for transparency, but never really says anything except drops hints and causes massive amounts of unrest. Also, some concern about putting all eggs in one basket... and about whether they can stick to decisions made. Some high level management have very poor leadership skills, frenzied strategic vision, and even sketchy, blatant nepotism and favoritism. They say they care about career development but in many ares this seems HR lip service rather than truth. Especially as the close very productive sites and do virtually nothing for the people left behind.

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5.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

Organized, Opportunity for growth, great internship program

Cons

Very big company, sometimes it's hard to get a good idea of how the entire company and all of it's departments connect.

2.0
Jun 6, 2026
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Pros

Interesting work that brings new medicines addressing unmet medical needs. Working with a group of highly skilled and knowledgeable people Allowing requests to be laid-off with generous severance enabling early retirement if so desired.

Cons

Loss of experienced people leading to loss of institutional knowledge and expertise at getting things done right the first time. Many new folks learning their jobs. Continuous budget cuts and layoffs - good news is established folks can request layoff and retire early WORST huge errosion in medical benefits. 2025-2026 32% increase in cost of single person high deductible insurance. Huge increase in allowable billable cost for the same cpt code services (eg. 2025 Dr visit $115 and same visit in 2026 $247). This change was hidden from employees until they went to the Dr and received their EOB bills. Company is managing loss of patents/revenue by hitting employee health care hard

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