Baxter Reviews

Pros

Work culture and time flexibility

Cons

Management instability, upper management pressures, targets for managers overall insecurity and instability due to rapid hire and fire strategies

Pros

R&D center has grown leaps and bounds in last couple of years Good opportunities to grow technical and domain specific skills Leadership is very supportive, extend there help as needed Encouragement to good work Lot of fun activities planned Competitive perks

Cons

Processes need improvement Global teams need to understand the dynamics, culture of indian teams

Advice to Management

Work life balance should be taken care of

Pros

Good Pay, Good Learning, Exposure

Cons

Controlled culture, Discrimination between grades

Pros

good salary , good office space

Cons

Worst management style ,bad culture

Pros

Culture is good. Good Compensation. Possibility of Global Exposure.

Cons

No big learning. Chances of enhancing skills is low.

Pros

Good. Not sure what to say

Cons

Huge target . No stability any level

Pros

Good products and brand perception in the minds of end users. For rest, please continue to read

Cons

1. Too many processes and if miss out on any thing, no exception 2. For everything deadlines 3. Sales Force SFE drives the culture. 5 calls perday, calls to be planned well in advance in SFE. For any reason the doctor you planned to meet in the SFE, you don't meeting for some reason and you meet other doctors, the call is not considered and your call average get lower. 4. In SFE, you need to upload your... secondry sales plan and achievement. You may loose the incentive for not uploading properly 5. Within 2 working days you need to report in SFE your calls or else you won't be eligible to get the expenses for that day where in you missed reporting the call. You need to send SFE report with your expenses claims within 30 days, beyond that forget your claims. Too much cost cutting, 425 Rs is the capping per day in station which includes travel in the city, food and everything. 6. If you are planning to conduct CME to engage your customers, for raising grants you have to go through various processes, applications and forms. Ultimately you will loose interest in conducting any activities for your customers. 7. Bad leadership, Business head favourites gets promotion. Shoe polish culture, open blame games, people needs lots of follows for performing a single job. Slow supply chain response. 8. Very low incentives. And getting the same is dependent on various factors which are not related to revenue and unit sales. Even you do 100 percent number there are high chances you may not get your incentives as it all depends on other factors. 9. Pure pharmaceutical industry culture, being a medical devices and equipment company. 10. No promotions, high attrition rate and who so ever stay they become strong politicians.

Pros

You can get a higher package as compared to other pharma companies.

Cons

Company management struggling to find an appropriate strategy to survive in India. The cash crunch is a major issue with the company due to which ample time will not be given to the sales team in the field to execute the plans. No connection between Senior management and field team . Hire and Fire theory is applied to the Field team. Useless HR. You will get Webex training for New Hire Salespeople ( First time I saw... in my career ). I have not seen any medical person in my tenure at Baxter to support Drs for their queries. Also, you get an additional job as a clerk. Spend at least 2 hours daily at Laptop in routine days and spend 4-6 hours during closing and meeting days. #does not recommend joining Baxter #Short term plan@Baxter # get a hike and leave ASAP within 6 months # Pathetic work & life balance

Advice to Management

Choose better Senior management. Imagine if BU head level person is leaving in a year Baxter, then signs are not really good to grow or even survive. Also, selection criterias are also questionable.