The Culture of Bayer

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I have been at Bayer for about nine months and from where I sit the culture at Bayer sucks. . There is NO transparency whatsoever. Everything in my department is a secret. I still have not been told where I am sitting when we move to Whippany I should NOT HAVE to ask, I should be told. Absolute bullshit. My manager is totally incompetent and has NO Clue or cares how to run the department. 4 people have left since January.

The move to Whippany, I am convinced, will reveal all. All the shit will rise to the top for all to be seen. I don't see myself there for much longer. I am very disappointed in the company and don't see a future here.
 






The above post is right on. I am a Berlex rep who knew that Berlex was bad. Bayer makes Berlex seem like Apple! The incompetence is rampant and widespread. Phil is representative of all that is wrong at Bayer. Totally incompetent and clueless!
 






Anonymous said:
The above post is right on. I am a Berlex rep who knew that Berlex was bad. Bayer makes Berlex seem like Apple! The incompetence is rampant and widespread. Phil is representative of all that is wrong at Bayer. Totally incompetent and clueless!
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Are you saying Phil is no Steve Jobs!? Ole Steve would never fuel expansion opportunities by passing over current apple employees to hire only Samsung employees would he? Or any other high level manager of a major corporation for that matter. That would hurt morale , breed discontent and heighten mistrust that can affect productivity . Management 101
 






Bayer and Phil are do far from the Steve Jobs and Apple culture, not even in the same ballpark!! Our culture sucks. WHC gets Conceptus and PB talks how exciting this is for Bayer and WHC, yes maybe if you are in the top 2-3 management positions. It sucks for the rest of us waiting for lay off 3 in 3 years. We launch Skyla and now can't supply the product. Change the incentive plan every month or two and changes quotas AFTER the period is over. It sucks here!! But I keep hoping someone with half a brain and some guts will step up!!
 












Wait till you get to Whippany. We are all alike and they have put propaganda on the walls. It looks like almost 3000 people all in their little desks. No individuality as it is not allowed. You go through three security check points, so only the obedient are allowed.
 






Anonymous said:
The culture is awful.

They don't hire from within and don't develop their people even though on their intranet site under Professional Development they state otherwise. There are some really great people at Bayer (personality-wise), and some real losers. Many/most of the management still think they are part of the "cool" group in high school and love to professionally bully people around. Most manage up for fear of their own hide, and trample the people beneath them in the process. Most directors may have some years under their belts, and thats really the only reason they got the jobs, not based on real performance, hence they are horrid, dysfunctional managers. Again, they like the cache of being in senior management roles, and really could care less about anyone who isn't at or close to their salary grades. Do a google search on "Bayer" and "gender discrimination" and you can read all about the lawsuit that they are quietly sweeping under the rug. It boggles the mind at who is now in the leadership roles--

Oh, and they love lying to the sales force--neurology as an example--telling these people for years how great everything it is...while the competition is cleaning ther clocks...
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I find all this comical. Have you never worked for another pharma company? It's like this everywhere! It's part of being in sales, in pharma and having a job in genreal. Anyone who tells you they work for the perfect company is either too naive to know any better or drinking way too much of the company cool aid.
 






Anonymous said:
I've heard Bayer is a great place to be in the industry. Every employee that I've met and talked to seems happy. Is this an accurate depiction of the culture of Bayer?
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Watch out for Bob Russey, former human resource worker at Bayer in Berkeley. He helped upper management back in 2010 to layoff a bunch of fermentation operators under the guise of building contamination. Now he's runoff and hid as a supervisor in Concentration and Packaging.
 












Anonymous said:
Are you saying Phil is no Steve Jobs!? Ole Steve would never fuel expansion opportunities by passing over current apple employees to hire only Samsung employees would he? Or any other high level manager of a major corporation for that matter. That would hurt morale , breed discontent and heighten mistrust that can affect productivity . Management 101
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This is spot ON!!!! Bayer also has a ton of development opportunities but strangely, you can never get your boss to help get you there??????

There are some companies doing it right. I have heard Genetech is great about helping develop their own people. They WANT you to build on your stregths. Maybe they could do a mass LAYOFF with all of the high paid executive salaries in the home office. Clean house there and rebuild the management team for a change. See if we could actually get some people who care about other people. Last I checked, that is mgmt 101 too. Take care of your people and they take care of you.
 






Anonymous said:
This is spot ON!!!! Bayer also has a ton of development opportunities but strangely, you can never get your boss to help get you there??????

There are some companies doing it right. I have heard Genetech is great about helping develop their own people. They WANT you to build on your stregths. Maybe they could do a mass LAYOFF with all of the high paid executive salaries in the home office. Clean house there and rebuild the management team for a change. See if we could actually get some people who care about other people. Last I checked, that is mgmt 101 too. Take care of your people and they take care of you.
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Culture? What culture?? Managers are doing a big dance around the fact that there's going to be "change". This is why while you are giving is all fluff we are leaving.

Oh and keep the change!
 












Anonymous said:
I find all this comical. Have you never worked for another pharma company? It's like this everywhere! It's part of being in sales, in pharma and having a job in genreal. Anyone who tells you they work for the perfect company is either too naive to know any better or drinking way too much of the company cool aid.
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Yes, but this company sucks more than most.
 






All the announce,emits will happen together, I bet.

Here is ure missing spp!
Suddenly lms released content!
Oh yeah, fsd is gone as of last week...
Here are ure colleagues account plans...go get em!
Data updated through June overnight!
And the BD mess gets cleared up!
Skyla? Back in stock!!!!
......said no one ever.
 


















That is so funny! First, most people are afraid to type or email anything on the company computer because of litigation and lawsuits. Second, I saw this coming a long time ago that they were gonna take the account plans and then pass them out to the new reps during a reorganization. Those plans were a joke.
 






Anonymous said:
All the announce,emits will happen together, I bet.

Here is ure missing spp!
Suddenly lms released content!
Oh yeah, fsd is gone as of last week...
Here are ure colleagues account plans...go get em!
Data updated through June overnight!
And the BD mess gets cleared up!
Skyla? Back in stock!!!!
......said no one ever.
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Try this...

There may not be any "missing SPP". Trouble with CVS.

But we wouldn't know that since no one responds to inquiries for MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(btw started in June)
 












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