Bayer reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,547 total reviews)
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Bill Anderson

63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Bayer has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,547 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bayer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Mar 25, 2019

Management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good product line-established brands. Nice benefits

Cons

No leadership. Lack of direction. No plan to bring company back to growth. Five years of zero to small growth. Sad considering they claim to be the biggest OTC company in the world.

3.0
Jul 27, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with fun people and good benefits

Cons

Merger with Monsanto is causing major stress! Many people don't want to move and will be losing their jobs.

3.0
Mar 11, 2018

Not as good as it used to be

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive pay Great benefits Good learning experience for the highly motivated Many "extracurricular" activities for those who are interested Opportunity to work with people in other countries

Cons

- Performance reviews use a bell curve assumption that there is always an underperformer - Increasing use of outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring has resulted in less of a sense of teamwork - Unrealistic timelines make the company's lip service to work/life balance just so much hot air - Siloing and lack of communication among functional areas - High risk of burnout and resulting health problems that are then blamed on the employee - Managers tend to hire people of their own race/ethnicity - Constant reorganizations create uncertainty; processes change often and are not always documented.

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