Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Inc. Employee Reviews
Out of 149 Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Inc. employee reviews, 60% were positive. The remaining 40% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Inc. improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 58% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Inc. compared to all other departments at the company. The Engineering team offered the most constructive feedback, with 62% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Fortunate to make great friends but we all struggle to stay afloat together
Review from Operations Dept
very disorganized, no structure, hostile atmosphere, lots of drama
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
The management team cares about their employees but have no voice, the owners don’t care what they have to say and will disregard it anyway. The mana
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Approachability. Knowledge of industry. Willingness to do hands on work
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I've only worked here a little bit but the leadership team is easy to work with and very understanding. I love working here because of that. I find that in many jobs, a bad manager can make a great work environment and job bad, so it's great to have a good leadership team to work with.
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They are approachable, dependable, and excellent problem solvers.
They are all super friendly. Went out of their way to introduce themselves when I started
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
I think the CEO makes all decisions and disregards the management teams opinions. He is just looking to build his portfolio of clients so he can sell the company.
Listening to employees and stop rushing
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The leadership team needs to take responsibility in acknowledging that there is an overwhelmingly negative atmosphere plaguing the company, and rather than blaming the employees they need to look internally as to why their employees feel so constantly stressed out and discouraged.
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Stop looking out for yourselves and be leaders. The department VPs are scared to death of offending the CEO (and his wife). Stop working your staffs to death to earn your 10% per quarter bonuses.
Review from Engineering Dept
Improve culture . Make if a culture of quality and collaboration.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
pay, medical benefits, modified work week (4 day & 9/80) programs
Review from Operations Dept
I get paid well and I enjoy my benefits.
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The card you can preload to pay for health costs before tax.
I like the paid time off
Review from Engineering Dept
From day 1 employees receive health insurance. This is a company where being healthy is important to be able to maintain production expectations.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
The company cycles through workers at astonishing rate. Ive never seen so many people leave in my first 3 weeks working somewhere.
Salaried employees are expected to work the job of 3 people and hours of overtime with no extra pay.
Review from Operations Dept
Employees at this company are generally paid OK for the geographic area, but the bare minimum in relationship to industry standards for similar roles. Owners are oftentimes outwardly rude to employees and do not take their individual time or effort into consideration.
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Paid according to industry standards.
I know I am undervalued and If all departments honestly worked together and planned the projects that needed to be executed greater than 15 minutes before they were already 15 minutes late than I believe that my compensation would just barely be competitive
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Coworkers are good people trying their best even with ridiculous timelines and demamds.
Everyone at BSM is friendly and caring, most will go out of the way to help one another
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Commitment to excellence and professional growth in their job areas
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Easy to work with, collaborate well and get things done in a timely manner. There is sometimes stress but it is easily alleviated by working with the team on whatever issue is at hand.
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Everyone is willing to help out. No one will leave you stranded, and everyone pitches in for tasks that aren't in their job description (such as cleaning out trash upstairs before the renovations started, painting floors, weeding the front gardens).
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Most of the staff is under 3 months old so no one knows how to do anything. All the older employees have left or are leaving since everyone realizes nothing is going to change
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Be more involved in fixing problems rather than pointing out who is responsible. Do more that beyond the job title.
Review from Engineering Dept
My co-workers need to be better trained. No one is ever trained. People are thrown into roles that they are either not qualified for or do not know how to do. My favorite is when they have me do odd jobs in work clothes. Might as well paint a gravel driveway...this place is a dump.
Review from Engineering Dept
Take responsibility in making the culture better. Put quality first.
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Find work at a different company so that they can grow in expertise, become happy doing their jobs. Currently employees are just trying to get to the end of the day.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The HR team really does try . They regularly ask for feedback and will stick their neck out to make things better , and genuinely care about how you feel. They changed the insurance provider for better deals on the same coverage
The coworkers but everyone is upset on how things are done. Most people think the company is not organized.
Different groups within the company working together as a team to accomplish goals. Many projects take 3-5 different departments working together to complete.
Review from Operations Dept
It is a fairly small company so pretty much everyone knows everyone. It feels very much like a close knit community or family. People care about each other here and you feel that your presence makes a difference.
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I rarely see my coworkers or managers give up.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Owners need to step back and let their management team manage, as well as train their managers. If your going to promote within that’s great but you can’t throw someone in to a management role after 1 year of work with no training. Stop being cheap a
Review from Operations Dept
Focus on doing things right the first time. Slow down and fix the problems that occur over and over rather then focus on rushing to make a quick buck
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Communication is lacking and rushing to get things done leads to mistakes, frustration, and employee turn over
Hold people accountable. Start accepting responsibility rather than blaming. Focus on quality and safety first.
Review from Engineering Dept
Leadership direction, mentoring by leadership, defined expectations, training rather than just expecting someone to find their way, putting quality into the product, authenticity with clients, slowing down so we can get it right the first time rather than being reactive-be proactive.
What did you like most about the interview process?
Quick and easy, not threatening in any way.
Personal interaction with several team members
Review from Operations Dept
The interviewers were very easy to talk to and it didn't feel much like an interview. Additionally, they gave me a tour and explained clearly what my position and responsibilities were, so I felt very prepared on my first day.
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Nice to meet everyone here.
I appreciated the tour of the facility and liked the fact that we had an opportunity to interview with multiple parties however it wasn't overkill. Interview with future manager was very pleasant, however upper management seemed disinterested in the interview despite efforts to impress.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Have the interviewers show up on time if they even show up and look and act engaged like they are excited to hire someone to their team.
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They make you meet with many people who ask the exact same questions for 5 hours
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Train people to interview properly, make the commitment to interview if you are scheduled to do it, coordinate the interview so the interview is not repetitive, active recruiting necessary by HR
Actually interview people who you are interested in interviewing. Take the time to really get a feel for them, rather than bumbling through generic scripts and hiring anyone with a pulse.
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Recruit, interview, hire, and keep competent people. It's not complicated, but they don't care. Everyone can be replaced.
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What makes you most happy at work?
The work, we do good things. The end goal.
What we are building at BSM. Seeing growth of the Company and colleagues.
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When I am able to get things done and work with others to complete tasks and projects given to me, I'm very happy.
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The work never ends, and I learn something new everyday. I feel as though my work is purposeful and it is fulfilling to complete my daily tasks.
I am not bored and generally learn something every day that will help people.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The company is on a steep decline to failure, I don’t know who or what could help at this point. Probably should bring in an outside source to fix up the broken pieces, the HR is useless in thinking they can fix things as they only make it worse and side with the owners to
Review from Operations Dept
The nature of the work and coworkers are wonderful but there is little to no planning and as a result there are often bumps along the road that could've been avoided had we taken more time to pursue GMP right. Upper management often takes these failure out on employees when they are the ones pushing
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Quality is a joke. The system's aren't followed and that's the culture of operations. When something goes wrong it's always someone else's fault. To improve, stop blaming and start focusing on quality.
Review from Engineering Dept
Long hours, unrealistic schedules, slowing down and doing it right -validate the equipment, follow SOP’s, train people, improve process and stop blaming human error...extra work is created by the lack of leadership to follow procedures and nobody is willing to chall
The CEO will walk into the cleanroom and completely disregard GMP standards and compromise the sterility and quality of the final product. There are SERIOUS equipment issues that receive metaphorical duct tape rather than real fixes.
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What do you like best about your company?
The potential for technological advancement
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Employee retention, fair treatment of all employees and promotions, the way executive leadership treats employees, general sense of ownership for mistakes
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