Bayer reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,549 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 5,549 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 Farmacêutica e biotecnologia industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Mar 25, 2023

Some good people, awful culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some genuine good people who work there.

Cons

Where to begin, Sr. leadership is lost and doesn't know where it wants to go. Bayer wants to identify as a German pharma company but doesn't realize it is insignificant in the pharma world and its positive bottom line comes from American and Brazlilian farmers. Bayer is a company that announces record earnings but the next day announces a five month delay in cola pay increase...nothing like waiting until the last minute. Bayer is a place that promotes based on whose in the right group. If you're not, you are screwed. Sure positions will be posted and be "competitive" in the hiring process, but reality is the person who gets the role was slated for it before the job description was even posted. Bayer is a place that will also focus solely on DEI, but doesn't actually do anything to develop talent. So, while their heart my be in the right place for DEI, they are setting folks up for failure due to no development. Bayer is a company that doesn't believe in salary increases aside from the COLA...if you earn it because they call it a "merit" increase. Bayer is a company that caters to and cuddles it's German workforce while forsaking everyone else.

1.0
Jan 11, 2023

super toxic

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

some cool projects, and they paid me

Cons

Leadership is absolutely clueless, and is too busy stabbing everyone in the back for their own gain. Middle level management is beyond incompetent and are looking ways to steal credit for the work that their people are doing, while throwing the same people under the bus and distancing themselves when something doesn't go well. So many people here have titles way beyond their abilities, and it really shows when you sit in a meeting that had to have 40 people invited and the people running the meeting have no idea what they are asking or what they are being told when people answer. The icing on the cake is that you will then end up having another 3 to 5 meetings with the same people on the same topic because the people asking took no notes, and they wont bother reading meeting recap notes either Huge waste of time working here and highly frustrating if you actually care about development, real career growth (not just getting new titles for your lacking ability to do that job), and want to actually deliver good work

4.0
Feb 4, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing people, good work life balance, amazing benefits, unsurpassed retirement benefits.

Cons

Pharma performance dragged down by Xarelto and Eyelea going off patent, coupled with Monsanto lawsuits depressing the stock, your LTI and STI barely hit the target. Salary is barely median within industry, yet HR takes the stance it's competitive. Oncology pipeline has dried up, new management not able to make a decision on acquisitions to save their life and their entire pipeline commercialization team has been dissolved (their BD&L team is led by a confused lady, at best). They are hanging by a Nubeqa thread that has a peak potential of 4bn, yet Bayer has 100bn of debt on the books. So get promoted and move up, then move on.

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