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Bristol Myers Squibb

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Disney Land - Senior Leadership Bristol Myers Squibb Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The work done at BMS meaningful. Saving patient lives is the best part of working there.

Cons

The industry nickname for BMS is Disney Land. If you want to fast track your career by 10 years, BMS will hire you as a senior leader. This is due to significant amount of inexperienced leaders hiring inexperienced individuals. I have never seen so many directors, SD, ED in my 20 year career. Of all the companies out there involved in CAR T they are the most disorganized. Site level leadership operate at the levels of supervisors and managers but carry around big titles. There is zero strategy and thoughtfulness behind decision making. Unfortunately the senior level are where the biggest problems lay. You can literally look these “leaders” up on LinkedIn and clearly see they are not fit for such high level roles. There are AD, directors, SD, and ED who were managers 1-3 years ago and now lead teams of hundreds overnight without the qualifications to do so. It is baffling how such a critical life saving drug is being ran this way. BMS has a history of restructuring and layoffs and I’m sure at some point senior global leadership will catch on and rectify this.

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5.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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