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
Mar 24, 2014

HORRIBLE place to work, AWFUL management in most departments.

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Pros

Quarterly bonuses paid (sometimes), when the other sand-bagging divisions (like CA) aren't dragging the rest of the company's numbers down.

Cons

Department managers are either passive aggressive, weak "leaders" who are afraid of any kind of confrontation, or low-skill, detached bullies who try to intimidate their subordinates in an effort to hide their own incompetence. Due dates are always changing based on whatever poorly conceived idea top level management wants to pursue that month. Human resources is one of the worst of any companies I've worked for, completely unhelpful and never in the office because the local HR person takes vacation days at least once a week and is always in their office with the door closed and on the phone. Most mid-level managers have been there WAY too long and spend most of their days web surfing and demanding their employees take on the work they couldn't finish because they were on Facebook all day trying to pick a name for their new dog. Some middle managers are uneducated and unskilled and try to bully other managers and employees in order to hide their own lack of skills and shut down further discussion. Employees are held to different standards when compared to other employees within the same department. New products are often poorly thought out and are usually derivatives of previous products. Marketing has way too much influence over what products are offered and makes promises to customers without consulting other departments, leaving those departments to scramble and try to figure out the details, while the marketing personnel are out jetting around and failing to sell new products.

1.0
Nov 23, 2021
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Pros

- supportive colleagues - some cool scientific and technological advancement

Cons

In short, management practices that signify fanatical commitment to Friedman-style capitalism: - growing hierarchy with sole focus on revenue, utilization and costs, while the bottom of hierarchy becomes leaner by the years. - highly top-down management style. - Some critical functioning teams and positions have been ruthlessly made redundant in the face of difficult economic situation, causing long-term disastrous damage to operations and transactional processes. Commercial Excellence and Transformation is often the nice objective behind that. ;) - so many of such meeting were held within the hierarchy just to talk about revenue forecast and revenue accounting. Money is treated like a cult! - Meanwhile, the real tech and engineering work were left to rot. Manpower at working level were often left lean and strained. > <

1.0
Nov 18, 2016
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Pros

Decent company for starters but need to move on after 2 years. Other than good medical benefit ... nothing much to say

Cons

Management sucks big time .... over load with irrelevant objectives. Even objective met u will not get a raise, they will tell u it part of your job. No promotion and no growth opportunity within the organisation

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