Becton Dickinson & Company (BD) Employer Reviews

I worked at BD for almost 13 years before the Oceanside office was closed and manufacturing outsourced to Juarez Mexico. I thoroughly enjoyed my job and the wonderful people with whom I was fortunate to work.

I have been out of BD for a while, but do speak to those who are still there. It continues to be a nurturing, socially responsible world class professional employer. I would love the opportunity to return to the BD community!

BD is overall a good company to work for. Especially the plant in South Carolina. Great people that care about what they do. The company has gone thru a lot of changes lately and it has created a lot of stress and uncertainty. Not much communication on what the final result is supposed to look like for the whole corporation. But they treat the employees – more... good. I've had a lot of opportunities and learned a lot. If you want to make a difference you can. I hope I retire from BD. – less

My sales team and RBM are all great to work with. I especially enjoy being in hospitals where staff members are having difficulty with a product, and I am able to turn them around to "loving" it. I think that the hardest part of the my job is finding out on a Friday after "business hours" where I am flying to on Monday morning and being gone for the – more... entire week. Lots of planning for very little turn around time. – less

Becton Dickinson is well known and highly rate as an employer for good reason. Excellent opportunities for advancement and career growth including a very robust training program

Unless you "play the game" you are going no where in this place. I sat in the same position for years and years and I was always given an excuse for not moving ahead. Meanwhile the people who did move ahead did "play the game" very well and guess what? They weren't so bright. This company always made me feel like I wasn't good enough when in reality – more... the opposite is true.The culture is plain cold and quite strange. This company is totally full of itself and ALWAYS going on and on about how wonderful they are. Believe me that is not the case. Did I mention all the million levels of management and all the red tape? BD is so top heavy with managers that the whole place is going to tip over one day. The red tape is so plentiful that the whole place is suffocating on it. I understand that practically every company has some degree of politics in it but my gosh I've never seen anything quite like this place. There are more politicians in Franklin Lakes, NJ than in Washington DC. SICKENING. If you are an honest and hard working finance professional, do yourself a favor and stay away from this place. You WILL NOT get ahead and the BS that goes on around WILL WEAR YOU OUT. If you do decide to work in this disaster, KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN. – less

issues with communication, treatment of some not handled well

This is one job you can depend on full time. Great training and a good team to work with.

Company is currently restructuring their IT organization to support a Global SAP Implementation. While both of these events are meant to create more efficiency in the company as a whole, there have been many delays that have caused this project to drag on well past (years) its original projected go live date. Associates are forced to work long hours – more... and weekends. While this could be sustained for short periods of time, the current timeline projects this work model for at least the next 12 months. Burn out is becoming an epidemic. – less

Contract opportunity. Job details and original job description totally different. Do not recommend to anyone

Becton Dickinson is an okay place to work. I wish there had been more of an opportunity for growth following the temporary period however, it was an okay environment and I have no major complaints.

Becton, Dickinson & Company was a very good company to work for. They trained you in every aspect of your job and if you needed any additional education, they reimbursed you as long as you passed the course. I learned all my word processing skills at this company. They sent us to many seminars that would teach you how to handle your position better. – more... These seminars were very helpful. – less

Most of the people were good to each other. The past CEO was a
real people person. He even worked on the manufacturing line
from time to time.

helping people live healthy lives gives others hope for a better future, in the medicine/research field.

Project Management on the Medical Surgical Systems.
Very proficient co-workers
Learned strong project management skills, working with a cross-functional team for each project.

good bunch of lads shame the shift got shut down as really enjoyed it there.

• Interacted with Business Users and Business Analysts to gather and document the requirements and translate these to Technical specifications for designing Universes.
• Created several Universes using Designer according to the requirement.
• Updated and maintained existing Universes based on changes in user requirements and changes in data.
• Improved – more... the performance and reduced the coding with the use of @functions (@aggregate aware, @select, @prompt, @where.
• Created new and modified existing Hierarchies in the universes to meet Drill Analysis needs of the user’s.
• Defined Alias tables and Contexts to resolve loops and also tested to ensure that correct results are retrieved.
• Developed standard, cross-tab and Drill-down Reports using Webi Reports.
• Developed Web Intelligence reports making use of several Queries (Union, Intersection, Minus). – less

A typical day at BD(Becton Dickinson) was full of energy, learning process and new challenges everyday. I learned using FOSY, TRACIS, Lotus notes and access database for creation of tools. Although, I was working in a different country with a language barrier among us, still my colleagues were quite supportive. Interacting and motivating people to accomplish – more... their goal was very interesting for me. – less

Ótimo ambiente de Trabalho, com grade responsabilidade e seriedade...??

_Nesta empresa todo dia era bom.Começava-mos com reunião de setor onde definia-mos as tarefas.caso esta fosse de difícil resolução,solicitáva-mos ajuda.A direção no longo tempo em que estive lá mudou muito,pessoal e direcional.Não existia monotonia,todo dia apresentava-se diferente com problemas idem,fazendo com que fosse um aprendizado constante.
Estive – more... trabalhando com muitos colegas sendo que alguns mais experientes e outros que se faziam necessário alguma ajuda de ordem técnica(trainee),mas em sua maioria muito esforçados.
Considerando que trabalhei responsável por algum tempo (um ano e dois mêses)pela manutenção de turno noturno sozinho foi por vezes muito difícil,mas superei.Sempre fui apaixonado pelo que fazia e sair para trabalhar era por si só muito agradável.
Por vezes me pergunto se poderia fazer algo diferente para ainda estar lá,mas foram excelentes 22 anos de trabalho que me prepararam e com alto-suficiência profisional e financêira para este dia. – less