BASF reviews

4.0

83% would recommend to a friend

(4,134 total reviews)
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Markus Kamieth

76% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

BASF has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,134 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 Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Nov 5, 2018

Nice Colleagues but Bad Management & Salary

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Nice and international colleagues -Flexible time -Summer & Christmas parties -Location -Stable company -Very good for starting your professional life in Berlin but do not stay more than 1.5 years in the same position.

Cons

-Salary is very low compared to other jobs with the same function in other companies in the city. -Incompetent leaders -Most of the leaders do not care about developing their people -Leaders are not open at all to new ideas or approaches. They prefer to do everything in the same way or in the most bureaucratic possible way. -More and more they are hiring more non-German speaker people but they have not adjusted yet that all meetings and massive emails are in English instead of German. This always gives the feeling of being in the wrong place - It also makes no sense to have to attend long meetings in German when you do not understand the language. -Top management does not get any formal evaluation or feedback regarding the TL and TS's performance as leaders (e.g. a 360º anonymous evaluation) so bad leaders stay long time. -Lack of involvement of the Team Leads/Specialists in the daily business. They are not really a support for the team when there is an issue with a customer, they try as much as possible to be safe and avoid any confrontation with them and prefer not interfere at all or always agree with them. -It is not possible to get a salary raise unless you are promoted to a new role that has a better salary assigment.

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BASF Response
7y
Thank you for your feedback. Our leadership team is committed to creating a collaborative, and trustworthy environment for all of our employees. We apologize that we did not meet your standards.
2.0
Aug 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Offices are nices, some colleagues are ok. It may be OK if you are straight ouf of the University with zero experience, but don't stay longer than 1-2 years...

Cons

Salary are very low compared to the (already low) Berlin's average salaries for the same position. Employees are more or less disposable because of the highly standardized processes and extremely rigid hierarchy. All valuable employees run away as soon as they can.

2.0
Mar 8, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

International environment, great team, flexible working hours

Cons

Worst management ever, bad communication, nobody really cares about improving or changing things, so if you have a lot of energy and motivation, it gets very frustrating after a while. I don't regret having worked there, but definitely, I should have left earlier. Salary can be quite low. I got a 40% bump for a pretty similar role in another company.

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BASF Response
6y
Thank you for your feedback. We will certainly take your advice and pass it along to management.
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