Fundamentally a commodity chemical company trying to reinvent itself - Anonymous employee BASF Employee Review

3.0
17 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

BASF makes money by being a very efficient manufacturer of commodity chemicals. It is attempting to improve performance it is attempting to reinvent itself as a specialty chemical company to extract greater value.

Cons

Being part of this transformation is exciting and at the same time very frustrating as many working for BASF have skills sets useful to a commodity focused business. These individuals struggle to contribute in a meaningful way to the new value oriented business model.

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