BD reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,312 total reviews)
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Tom Polen

68% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

BD has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,312 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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1.0
Jan 12, 2018

Poor and ineffective management

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Pros

Very few left to mention. Holidays around 25 days. BD benefits which are limited. There is very little left to be positive about. Culture is appalling.

Cons

Ineffective management. Poor management decision making. No innovation. Rigid. Arrogant and from a customers perspective extremely difficult to do business with. Policy and procedure driven to the point of ridiculous. Customer dissatisfaction. Backorders. Field safety notices. Silo’d. Really has gone from being a wonderful place to work (CFN) to an appalling place to work with a toxic environment.

2.0
Sep 21, 2016

Poor Management-no leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

great people who are willing to go the extra mile. work like a family team excellent skills delivering in adversity

Cons

line management poor. lack of man management skills. lack of technical knowledge. promoted because they can talk the talk. their way or the high way high staff turnover, lots of long term leavers. managers blame the team for their failure to lead. BD values are spoken but not adhered to by managers no career development.

1.0
Feb 25, 2017

Bad Decision

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hard to think of any. Work life balance isn't too bad, holiday policy is moderately generous and the hours per week is better than average.

Cons

Company has no idea where it is going, how to get there and what to do when it arrives. They have outsourced and off shored all the core parts of the business. Things are designed, made, repaired, supported and the whole IT system is run by other companies. The company is just a rudderless shell that is drifting on the tide. Internally the company is known as "Bad Decision" or "Bad Design". There is a consensus or paralysis, within the business. Meetings are a joke, dozens of people turn up late, there is never an agenda, the same topics as the last meeting are discussed, no one takes a decision and if they do it's only a reversal of the last one, there are no action items and no minutes. The whole process is repeated at the next meeting and nothing happens.

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