Bruker reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(505 total reviews)
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Frank H. Laukien

76% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Bruker has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 505 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bruker 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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505 reviews
1.0
Jan 25, 2016

Weak Management

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Pros

Good people in the trenches

Cons

Management at Bruker is horrible. They are a bunch of overpaid idiots who totally disrespect their many loyal employees. Management's poor business record on M&A, product development, staffing and other critical business decisions has been deplorable. A once thriving business is in tatters. Thanks MM.

1.0
Dec 14, 2015

Downward Spiral

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Pros

The people you interact with on daily basis are amazing people. Hard working people that know what they're doing and are willing to help others as needed. The engineers designed top quality optical profilers, and really understand their craft. While the growth wasn't amazing the business almost always made at least a small profit even during tough times.

Cons

New products were rushed and never felt fully completed. Priorities were always skewed, and you could never be sure what fire or project you would be working on for that day. Time and effort wasn't spent on the products that were actually making money, but instead on fairy tale markets that never come to fruition. HR was more or less nonexistent and seemed to be more out of the business than trying to help the employee. They had no career growth or any plans to help you grow your career. Unless you had an offer from another company in hand you could forget about any growth. Changes were forced down on us by people not even present at the factory. This is very obvious as they seemed to think the engineers can just be dropped in and start being effective right away. This business unit was doing well despite management, but with all the key people moving on to better things it's unlikely that they will continue to do well.

1.0
Dec 12, 2015

Operating in Pretty Much Full-time Crisis Mode

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Pros

Good benefits, but not great considering size of company. Christmas to New Year's shutdown (paid). Interesting technology, but a lot of reintroduction of old technology dressed up with a few new features to sound new. And if you like to be seriously micro-managed, this is the company for you!

Cons

BNS is an unstable division. Three layoffs in less than three years. Three presidents in less than three years. One left after only 6 months. Forced vacations in continue to be management's way of making the bottom line look better. Upper management is extremely arrogant and they don't trust the people they hire to do their job. Brown-nosing upper management is the only sure way to get ahead. And whatever you do, don't disagree with anyone above you. Even if you're an expert at what you were hired to do.

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