Challenging & Rewarding Work but Toxic Culture and Poor Leadership - Anonymous employee BASF Employee Review

2.0
17 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of projects to work on, providing many opportunities for growth (if you can navigate the system). Few established processes in some business, so much room to make something new, in addition t the many process improvements always happening. Decent benefits, but salary and bonuses not keeping up with other offers. Good opportunity for travel due to global nature of the business.

Cons

Work expectations can be extreme, and unmanageable at time. Projects are ambiguous without clear process or decision makers, so everything moves so slow. Toxic culture permeates; poor treatment of women persists. Questionable hiring practices. Senior leaders often don't understand the business they have to run, and don't trust the teams doing the work for many years. More time spent writing strategy iterations than spent on executing strategy and doing the work. When projects fail, scapegoats are identified early and aggressively blamed.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

A lot of bureaucracy, lean staffing

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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