Bayer reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,545 total reviews)
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63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Bayer has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,545 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Oct 12, 2008
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Pros

If your actually hired by the company a good deal. But the likelihood of you ever being more than a contractor is slim and none. There are really very little in the way of good or positive reasons to work for Bayer Corp in North America.

Cons

A huge company that only cares about top people. Little to no focus or coordination between divisions. They treat employees poorly and contractors at sub-human standards. There is NO upward mobility. They do not recognize hard work or sacrifice. Management is so consumed with their own petty squabbles and finger pointing they do no actual employee management.

4.0
Sep 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

On a professional level there are lots of technically strong people to learn from--a very collaborative work environment for the most part. Very action oriented and data driven.

Cons

The company has been pushing it's STAR objectives, which they seem to have difficulty implementing successfully. Why? The most difficulty seems to be in "being decisive". At times we are paralyzed by the fear of making a poor decision. I have found this to be true more in QA than on the Operations side.

4.0
Jun 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The internship program at the Baytown site is well-organized and geared towards educating the students. Supervisors will introduce interns to varied aspects of a chemical process through small projects covering basic unit ops - as is expected - and offer the expertise of senior engineers when the assignments turn hard. Activities, like dinners out and Astros games, are a nice reprieve from the drab Baytown surroundings as well as a chance to meet interns working in other units. The city of Baytown is a typical run-down oil town, and while there isn't much to do except suffer in the summer heat, it is inexpensive.

Cons

It's hard to stay busy at work for a number of reasons: managers are afraid of giving too much responsibility or assignments that may not have been covered in school, they're hesitant to bring 3-month hires up to speed on ongoing projects, and they don't want to thrust us in existing groups for fear that, if we don't work out, they'll be responsible. I haven't interned in other facilities, so it's unknown whether the Baytown plant is unique in this regard. At the end of summer, there's a mandatory presentation summarizing our contributions to the company. These two downsides do not go well together.

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