Consumer - Anonymous employee Bayer Employee Review

1.0
Apr 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Pay and Benefits, nice onsite gym and store

Cons

Having acquired the Merck Consumer Care division, Bayer has become more useless than ever. The pushed out all the good talent and kept all of the old, useless directors and staff. There are maybe 5 good people left. The HR department is quite useless as well. They've hired an external company to review why there is a high turn over and why employees are not happy. Bottom line is, the very few people that are left that are actually smart as in the wrong roles, the most useless are on top and that smartest people have left.

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Cons

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Cons

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