Baxter Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Large company that allows/encourages movement.
Opportunity for travel (if you desire).

Cons – Managers will tell you that family is important, but that's never the case. I was told that should the FDA show up for an audit (my wife was due to give birth to our first child), I would be expected to come in to manage the audit.

They withhold raises for as long as possible. Performance reviews are a joke.

Advice to Senior Management – Support your top performers. Support their families. Stop putting results before people.

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

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – No apprecation for work done

Cons – Eveeryone is treated as a number

Advice to Senior Management – Get to really know your employees

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

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I enjoyed the work atmosphere, the people, and the benefits. There are good opportunities for advancement and moving nationally and/or globally if you are willing to work.

Cons – As with many large companies, it is possible to become lost as just another worker. Sometimes moving up is more difficult than it would seem. There are more "hoops" to jump through than you may have in a smaller company. You have to balance what fits for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to Managers and Directors when it comes to promoting people to keep good quality people within the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baxter as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Learned a lot of new skills in pilot lab and a basic understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing

Cons – Limited space because of all the construction going on

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The company has a Pension benefit.

Cons – The company is not flexible with hours and poor worklife balance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baxter

Pros – Good compensation and benefits
Secure job

Cons – Weak communication
Politics
Disconnect between upper management and employees

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Lots of options. Baxter is a big company so there's plenty of opportunities

Cons – Big companies have too many bureaucratic policies/procedures.

Advice to Senior Management – Someone at a higher pay grade does not necessarily mean that they should have more authority to make decisions against various functions. Baxter needs to eliminate condescending and rude leaders.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baxter full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – You can't beat the benefits. Their heath insurance has a great medical coverage and the company covers most of the expense. The initial salary is usually very good.

Cons – The management does not care about it's employees. The only concern is the budget. You have no opportunity to move up within the company unless you are one of the perfect ones (or have an inside with upper managment). They do not care about how much work you are accomplishing. The only concern is if you submit your time each week, complete training on time and make it appear like you are doing something. If you fail at any one of those (one time), you will not be able to advance in the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to the amount and quality of work your employees do. Reward them for the quality and amount of work they do. Acknowledge their hard work and skills. Don't let one late training dictate if they get a promotion or not. Morale would be much higher if employees felt that their jobs were valuable.

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

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than a year

Pros – Baxter-Medina is a great place to work if you want to sit around like a bump on a log. It is just large enough employee activities and work initiatives aren't policed so a significant amount of white collared employees (@20%) go to work every day and produce nothing. If you're that type of person this is a great place for you.

Compensation is reasonably fair but I was given the runaround when my 20% annual bonus (in my employment contract) was due. So, don't count on any bonus if offered.

Cons – Baxter-Medina is in the middle of nowhere, so getting real talent in house is quite a challenge. It was a privately held company until April 2012. While privately held the sole purpose of its being was to create a selling proposition for Baxter. Because of this many people jumped into business roles that needed to be satisfied, although they had absolutely no skill or qualifications to do the job.

If you are real "talent", your ideas will be dismissed and scrutinized by those that I just previously mentioned. Because of the unqualified job holders, projects don't meet deadlines or goals (financial or time) but the company is financially stable enough to throw good money after bad.

Outsourcing is the software way here, so if you're looking for a development job the threat of being outsource looms in the background although is rarely implemented.

I've worked for some really good and bad companies before, this one without a doubt is on the very bottom of the bell curve. Worst company I've ever worked for period.

When I gave notice that I was leaving, they terminated me the next day (apparently is policy) WITHOUT PAY. Very un-classy, but what could one expect from a Medina company.

There is an attitude that because they are a "big fish" in such a small pond that employees would be lost without the leadership and security of the company.

If you like getting things done, being surrounded by talented counterparts, and fast paced environments, this is definitely NOT the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Mature from the privately held politics, listen to what your talent has to say...and don't assume they are just there to create a ruckus. Stop the assumptions because 90% of them were false in my observation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Baxter full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – A very well organized company

Cons – Not very much adopted to every local market

Advice to Senior Management – search within your employes to find the rising stars

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend