BYK Additives & Instruments has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BYK Additives & Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
Good pay and benefits, great team, good business, worldwide market, owned by the richest woman in Germany. career opportunity for a lot of disciplines including R & D.
Cons
Company with a lot of policies that must be followed, Very strict IT rules, working now with a very reduced team but company is doing a big effort to increase the labor force.
At the moment none used to be a place that everyone wanted to work but poor management sorted that
Cons
There is a management drive to turn this factory into a modern day work house. Slavery was abolished years ago but is being reinstated by a management team with only their personal beliefs driving poor desition making. The work force has been stripped to the minimum while the management team is like an updated version of Nohas ark. Many employees are actively seeking further employment before the new policies that the management are devising are brought into action which will give work to life ratio at zero. People are mentally and Physically exhausted but the management deal with this with a big stick usually resulting with threats of disciplinary action. I would not recommend this factory to my worst enemy.
Lots of Collaboration Between Business units and lots of exposure to C-Level Executives.
Cons
BYK has a bad habit of growing by acquisition and then letting the newly acquired companies atrophy. Very flat and unorganized matrix management structure. There are too many managers that negatively affect other business functions and without proper management structure this causes a lot of problems.
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According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, BYK Additives & Instruments employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at BYK Additives & Instruments. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months.
46% of BYK Additives & Instruments employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated BYK Additives & Instruments 3.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.8 for culture and values and 2.7 for career opportunities.
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