Baxter Reviews

I have been working at Baxter part-time

Pros – Flextime, good boss, the products of the company saves lives.

Cons – Doesn't pay market', major red tape to get anything done, HR sucks, IT systems suck, cheap budgets, sir management takes 10 percent bonuses when the "little people" only take 3.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so selfish and really focus on saving lives.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work-life balance, some flexibility, decent salary

Cons – No real opportunity for career advancement for many employees; mediocre, complacent and conforming employees are favored over true and deserving talent. Senior management has absolutely minimal or no ability to effectively lead its people and feels threatened by anyone who is sharp enough to recognize it, which often results in retaliation against such person.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward (when warranted) and listen to your employees.. Retain true talent and get rid of dead wood. Be accountable for your actions. There are some great employees at Baxter, but most of them eventually leave and take their skills and dedication to competitors. Time to reevaluate this culture.

I have been working at Baxter full-time

Pros – Nice people, you help to make products that could save someone's life.

Cons – Upper management does not practice vital behaviors. They just keep adding responsibilities, without an increase. Do not offer training as they should and do not take care of the good employees. The goof-offs are the ones that get the promotions not the people that do the work.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at your employee pool and get rid of the ones that do not work and reward the ones that do.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Baxter full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Pros were working in a challenging atmosphere, with many talented and ambitious people. Great work experience, good on the resume. Salary is decent, benefits are okay.

Cons – A lot of talk about "work/life balance" turns into a lot of *nothing* once you're in your job. Most positions do not allow for work-from-home opportunities, despite what you are told by HR. HR will allow managers to force people to work from the office 100%, and there is no recourse through HR. "Need-based" pay standards, not what HR will tell you. Many managers will give single moms higher annual raises, moms with children are often discriminated against (that is my particular experience) by being told when they initially take a job offer that working from home is totally acceptable, and then later are told that it is not acceptable just for her. Lots of the "good old boys" mentality there. If you're not one of the insiders, you're nothing. Lots of huge egos.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop acting like your employees are cattle. I quit my job at Baxter after 12 years because of favoritism among different managers/leaders. I worked in Quality, and the atmosphere was terrible. Our management gave no appreciation of anything we did (our entire team) and we were often the people working latest into the evening, in the entire building. I did not get fired from Baxter; I quit because I was fed up with the horrific conditions working there.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Baxter full-time for more than a year

Pros – Co-workers are some of the best I've had. More than half of them are really talented and hard working. Too bad all the good people are leaving in hordes.

Cons – The high turn over rate and lack of action on the part of Sr. Managers. They don't care about your growth and pile on as much work as you can handle, resulting in unequal distribution of work. The better you are, the more you get.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Baxter as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – It's good for entry level.

Cons – Not good for career development.

Advice to Senior Management – Mediun level managment is not good.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good stable company in the western suburbs, nice working environment, colleagues nice, a good average employee who just wants to do their job and go home would see this a a good place to work.

Cons – too slow, too much red tape, promotions depend on relationships not on performance, it has become a make your manager look good culture

Advice to Senior Management – listen to those with knowledge and experience, stop paying lip service to the culture and values. the LE is for everyone not a tool for control.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Baxter full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Flexibility with hours and opportunity to work at home once per week
-Great benefits

Cons – -No accountability and follow through
-Poor training and lack of mentorship
-Management team is far removed from operations, therefore, each staff member has to defend for himself/herself or count on each other to get the job done
-No leadership/direction from the management team
-No consistency
-Work/life balance is being jeopardized as each team member is expected to take on additional projects and stay on top of the day to day work. Too many people doing projects and not enough people to cover the day to day work.
-No room for advancement
-No empowerment to perform the job that has been requested of the staff

I have been working at Baxter

Pros – - Good Work/Life Balance
- Decent Pay

Cons – - Dysfunctional senior management
- Red tape everywhere

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big company to have as a reference in your resume

Cons – - Bad salary and incentive
- The worst management system that I have seen
- Not organized
- Non existent development plan
- Don't appreciate employees
- Runed by management emotions instead conscious decisions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend