Boehringer Ingelheim Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Excellent competitive environment with clear career path."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Downsizing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't hire more reps than you need."

"Good company privately owned, but not not immune to the recession."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"The benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company is supposedly run by the Germans."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"I had no problems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Good luck."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Products, compensation, benefits, training was great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be careful, they just laid off 900 reps and the future is not as bright as we would hope for due to a lackluster pipeline."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"They didn't have many opportunities for advancements."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop lying to your reps."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"High profile work that makes a difference in peoples' lives."

"Great company, but industry is going downhill."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Flexibility, I was able to make a lot of my own decisions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure you send your reps into the field with all the am."

"The best company I have ever worked for."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"They successfully incorporated a clinical approach to selling strategies that paid off. They accomplished this without sacrificing actual sales. Representatives from our company were highly respected by physicians given their clinical knowledge of the disease states we provided products for. In addition, BIPI, heavily invested in information technology that assisted us representatives on our daily sales analysis and plans."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be as clinical as possible, know the competition, and close your interview."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"It grew too much too quickly, it over estimated their pipeline thus hiring too many representatives. this lead to a 30% reduction of sales force which I was part of."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Salvage the best of small company culture as they transition into big pharma."

"Great Company for the most part."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Like selling out in the field of drs."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Thought there was job security."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep your top performers."

"Great pharmaceutical company but unjust with job downsize of 30% sales force."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Flexibility to make your own targets and work hard to achieve by building trust and relationships with targets."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Prepare on drug anatomy."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"The way they cut their sales force."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Review how job cuts are made like towards older reps and seniority, instead of the way they made them."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"I liked the family atmosphere initially, but this changed over the years as they grew into BIG pharma."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"They laid me off. I would have continued on at BI if this had not happened."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let representatives treat their territories as their own company/business. No micro managing."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Great atmosphere."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Everything was fine, a great company while employed there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management could have been more forthcoming about what was transpiring within company so that employees could have begun looking for employment sooner."

"Boehringer is an excellent place to work!"

"The company went downhill after the current senior management started."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"I enjoyed working with my team members, the physicians that I called on and most of the products that I promoted."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good luck!"

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"I did not like how the sales representatives' input was not taken into consideration on issues that affected our territories."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestions for management would be to spend more money on getting Micardis a better position on formularies, stop with the flawed studies and make the IC plan more rewarding for the people on top."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Autonomy of running my own business. Corporate support IF needed."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Lack of job security, company reduced sales force by 30%."

"Standard in the pharmaceutical industry."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"My sales manager."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know what you are getting into."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"No career advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Promote people a lot quicker."

"A stepping stone position that gave me a chance at Medical Equipment Sales."

What do you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Previous position that led me to greater opportunities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know the products well."

What don't you like about working at Boehringer Ingelheim?

"Low earning potential."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase compensation plan."