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Bristol Myers Squibb

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Industry Cesspool - Senior Director Bristol Myers Squibb Employee Review

1.0
Mar 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

None. Learnt a lot across years (but not worth it). Paranoid environment based on fear, name-calling and yelling is normal. HR non-existent (located far, far away in Florida). I wouldn't recommend BMS to anyone.

Cons

Constant turf wars with politics between departments! VPs send their direct team reports for wars as they don't want to participate themselves. Managers lie to gain advantage in their job and throw you under the bus later (fear based management + favoritism), constant layoffs of top talent (don't come to BMS if you're a talent or your manager will let you go in 1-2 years). There are no promotions, except for those protected by their VP colleagues (favoritism again; promotions from associate director to executive director levels in one day!) Stay away from people who made a career at BMS, especially those with >10 years at BMS (back-stabbers who built careers on dead bodies). Not a single BMS employee believes in any of the values BMS leadership declares. It is not a science driven company - it is commercially driven, so if your research results do not support a particular objective, you and your projects will be immediately destroyed (name calling when your manager is not around; yelling is normal when managers are not in attendance). Top-tier KOLs publicly make fun of BMS inventing new diseases to make money; what an embarassment for anyone pursuing their careers with passion! Senior management is looking for ways to transfer money to prescribers and major institutions without following the US law. No job stability. Beware! Stay away!!!

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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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