Bayer reviews

HR encourages us to list a master's degree as a requirement on positions that don't really need one. That way, they can go to the government and say, "Look, we can't find qualified people! You MUST let us bring over some more H1Bs!" Then, after we've passed over some good candidates who had the misfortune of being US citizens, we bring over someone who meets our inflated requirements (on paper) and has a master's degree (from a diploma mill). By a strange coincidence, they happen to cost less than all of the US citizens that we passed over earlier.

1. Bayer HR offered me the wrong location when I came in as a college new hire. They told me I would be working in the Pittsburgh, PA office when I was supposed to be in the Whippany, NJ office. After signing a lease and finding roommates in Pittsburgh, they realized their mistake a couple of weeks before my start date. They then tried to make me move to Whippany last minute and deemed it "my own misunderstanding." Bayer's HR team is incompetent. 2. They do not appreciate young talent or new ideas. I would never suggest a recent college higher to work for Bayer. Only age and tenure is respected there. 3. It is an environment where old, white men call the shots. Very few women are in leadership within the IT department.