BD reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(5,322 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

67% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,322 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Apr 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

culture, flexible work hours/work from home

Cons

Terrible onboarding, lack of training,

2.0
Apr 3, 2020

Big Company feel

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good, balanced work-life environment

Cons

Upper management have too many responsibilities to give subordinates the guidance they need. Overly cautious approaches keeps things from getting done.

3.0
Mar 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not much great Hourly skilled tradesman making a difference in making surgical instruments. Some of the most talented and overall good group of employees on the shop floor. Great working with other supervisors. Was good pay right at 75000.

Cons

Locally the upper management is dismal barely scraping as functioning. No ownership they work excessive hours. If you cant get your work down in 40 to 45 hours a week in management position then either more work than one person can do or not the right person for the job. You should not use the fact you are at the workplace more hours than anyone else as a badge of honor just means your are incompetent. The management wants to build a team of yes man or woman to protect their own hide. They are not respectful to the hourly people that do the actual work and have the skill set. They are treated like children and with disdain. No HR on site and HR is work from home with no factory or experience in workplace for the state of Missouri. Willing ignores phone calls and shop floor information. High turnover for hourly with no training program to replace senior people retiring. Setting the shop up for failure. The current management set scapegoats to fire to look like they are actual fixing and taking charge but nothing changes for failure to look at system faults because they developed systems. Current salary personnel are in constant fear and CYA mode most days. Management does not train supervisor on systems so they can micro manage keep off balance and constant need to always be right. I have never met a group that personifies the worst in management style of the 90's as this group, yelling, threatening and overall belittling staff. Bulldozing anyone with a differing opinion or trying to make things better. Current management has issues keeping political and cultural views from being pushed on staff.

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