This place is a joke, plain and simple. The company is run just like the American Government. Mismanaged, wasteful, overpaid leadership and top-heavy org chart, excessively outsourced, process bloated, disorganized, inefficient, zero trust, poor communication, on and on. Its one big milk cow and everyone's vying for a te-t. If you're an overachiever or results driven, get ready to tow the line for your coworkers. Everyone will run to you for help because there's so much dysfunction that any productive employees gets inundated with help requests until they are burned out and either leave or quiet quit. The existing employees learned that hard work isn't rewarded, so the culture is to not care too much and milk the te-t as long as possible. Talented and productive people see the writing on the wall and bail after a few years, leaving behind the riff raff. C-suite execs get inserted sideways into the organization without any idea about how things function in a heavily regulated company like BD, resulting in multiyear multi-million-dollar projects getting abandoned at the whim of new VPs in lieu of their new vision. Communication is poor, syncing between teams and depts is such that workload and project tracking, pre work documentation, and process bloat are the norm. Resulting in inefficient workflows, delayed timelines, stagnated projects, unnecessary time sinks and frustration, just so management can attempt to have visibility and traceability while sitting in meetings all day. There's waaay too many meetings, and waaay too many people who do nothing but sit in meetings all day. Theres's people who exist solely to sync information between workers and management because everything is so disorganized. This place is a total circus, and its no wonder were in the position were in. The sad thing is BD is still a pretty good company to work for, which says a lot about the state of America as a whole.
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the issue is that every organization within the corporation has their own goals which cannot be sustained within the constraints of the ERP system's design structure and NO ONE understands how anything works. NO ONE - seriously - NO ONE. Those that knew are long gone - those left behind are merely struggling to meet expected timelines which were set by id--ts with NO IDEA HOW ANYTHING WORKS. You can't get flexibility from a rigid structure and you can't fix stupid. Keep dancing folks - that's all you can do
So well said bravo
When you look at the VPs’ educational/workex backgrounds, none of them have impressive credentials. More importantly, anyone who’s been with BD for over a decade tends to lose their edge because of the culture and hence really shouldn’t be in a leadership position.