BioNTech reviews

3.2

43% would recommend to a friend

(154 total reviews)
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Ugur Sahin

49% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

BioNTech has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 154 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BioNTech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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154 reviews
1.0
Dec 30, 2022

do not do contact work for them

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

cool science being done by the overall company but this location is not a good place to work

Cons

they treated the contracted (to hire) employees as if they were not actually a part of the team, something I had not experienced before with this type of contact work. There were multiple contracted employees in this position so it was not a person to person basis. Additionally supervisors and lower level management of this team continued to assure us they were doing all they could to give us the same small benefits that non contacted employees had, and trying to include us in those small things. For instance we were not given any company T-Shirts and other small favors as part of our introduction week, and there was a welcome talk where new hire names were mentioned and asked to introduce themselves, except for ours. We worked on multiple important projects for them over our months working there. Our supervisor completely lied to us about the security of our contracts, consistently having performance meetings with us and assured us we were on track for being hired at the end of the contract. Instead of letting us know they decided to end the contract, we were told nothing, only for all of the contracted employees to get the same call from the contract agency to ask if we were aware our contracts had been terminated. i have NEVER felt this disrespectful as a contract worker

4.0
Feb 4, 2022

Growing Pains for US

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* We get to work on a globally-recognized life saving product as well as develop novel therapies against cancer and a variety of infectious diseases * Fast company growth gives employees the ability to climb the ranks of the company faster than elsewhere and help to develop new workflows and procedures * Comfortable work life balance * Fair but competitive compensation

Cons

* Process are still being developed and timelines to get global projects done are long and unpredictable. It can take a year to get approval to work with a new vendor * Non-German sites seem to be treated as afterthoughts to the company as a whole. Decisions are made in Germany without any input from US stakeholders.

1.0
Apr 22, 2024

Disappointing organisation

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

it was a very nice place to work, in the past unfortunately. salary and career development attractive, but all gone now! I do not see any positive items to mention here anymore.

Cons

poor / unexperienced top management, absence of corporate culture, hand-full of unexperienced SVPs are the only ones trusted by founders, who decide for every thing and on behalf of every one. Real experienced people (still in the company) play low keys to keep jobs and CYA. Salaries are not competitive anymore, career progression, very limited at most! The dream is gone, but still sleeping and looking at the past. Stock price went down so badly, trust in the company is gone, from market, only a take-over from one of the big 5 (for the technology, only) will happen in 3 to 5 years. This may take place earlier if FDA/EMA inspectors ring the bell before...

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BioNTech Response
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Hello, and thank you for your review! It’s invaluable to us to learn of positive colleague experiences and those that fall short of expectations. Insights like these contribute greatly to the changes and improvements we can make. On this note, please accept our apologies for the experience you described. This falls short of our standards and what our team members can usually expect. Thank you once again for sharing, and we wish you continued success. Kind regards, Your BioNTech Talent Acquisition Team
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