BASF reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(4,135 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

BASF has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,135 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BASF employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Nov 17, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Large company with potential opportunities to move around. You can find good employees and managers, but very dependent on the group/business. Strong VP level managers and higher.

Cons

Work experience is very dependent on your group/manager. As a company, BASF talks about doing the right things, such as retaining and recruiting talent, fostering and encouraging diversity, developing their employees, etc. but in reality it's mainly a lot of talk and no action. There is a lot of bureaucracy and BASF is slow to make changes. Very few decision makers outside of headquarters. There is also a lot of office politics and moving up in the organization is mainly dependent on who you know rather than abilities/performance. In addition, management doesn't seem to care when good employees leave the organization. Because of the lack of strong managers at both senior and director levels, the employees suffer and morale can be poor in certain groups.

3.0
Aug 25, 2009

Work here if you like mediocrity

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large company with deep pockets, lots of job opportunities and lots of opportunities for all kinds of professional development. Upper management, ie, director level and above are excellent. Very very well managed company.

Cons

If you weren't a PDP they don't care to train you on the BASF way. They are slow to move in the direction of anything positive, like giving their employees 9/80's but very fast to take things away, like merit raises, vacation carryover, etc... They care more about the shareholders than they do about their own employees. Salaries are average to below average and they expect long hours and 24/7 dedication. Performance review process is horrible and HR refuses to change it. Middle management is terrible and upper management does nothing about it. Their "inclusion" policy is likely discrimination because it stipulates that they will promote women and minorities over others. Things move extremely slow and there is so much red tape and bureaucracy it's pathetic. The company thinks they are a high performance organization but they really just foster a culture of mediocrity because the high performers get sick of having to do everyone else's work and leave for higher pay and recognition. Spend billions acquiring a new company while they are shafting their current employees who are expected to just suck it up and be happy to have a job.

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