Baxter Reviews

Current Employee – 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

Current Employee – 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

Current Employee – 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

Current Employee – 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

Current Employee – 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

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

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

Pros – Decent pay and benefits for the location

Cons – Expectations are unrealistic, shotgun approach, everything is a number 1 priority.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop focusing on small things and focus on big picture

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

Pros – The name Baxter is a plus.

Cons – Busy environment. Management do not take the time to listen to their own employees. Everyone works to survive the day. It's a great place to work for a little bit just to get the name Baxter on your resume. Treatment from management is very unfair.

Advice to Senior Management – Your are not helping retain good employees. LA Baxter is too out of control.

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

Pros – Strong company overall
Great people
Team members can get broad experience within a given role

Cons – Repressive and overly controlling management style from Vienna-led management team
Poor systems and processes do not support adequate compliance
Too much responsibility without proper support/mentoring for most team roles

Advice to Senior Management – Better training and improved/streamlined processes are needed, and a stronger US & Vienna leadership team is needed to turn things around.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend