Could be a great company to work for - Anonymous employee BASF Employee Review

2.0
17 Nov 2009
Anonymous employee
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.

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Pros

Good work life balance, good culture, good pay, good benefits

Cons

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4.0
12 May 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, hybrid & remote roles, great colleagues to work with. Great vacation /time off. Helpful colleagues

Cons

Reorganizations (roughly 3 years), IT roles dwindling in North America(moving to India), teams can get very silo-ed, “not my role” = not helping you (when you are looking for answers/assistance), currently seeing a lot of movement out of New Jersey (roles moving to other parts of the country), some organizational charts can be confusing, huge organization(can be difficult at times pinpointing the exact team you may need to work with)

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