Corbion reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(147 total reviews)

Olivier Rigaud

76% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Corbion has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 147 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Corbion employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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147 reviews
2.0
Feb 25, 2015

Uh oh

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good compensation and benefits. Lenexa office full of good people.

Cons

No upward mobility, will always look externally. No HR strategy in place to train, retain good people.

1.0
Jul 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, competitive pay, solid work experience. Stepping stone company to the next job opportunity.

Cons

Working for this company is like being in high school all over again. There are the in crowds and if you aren't part of the in crowd, forget job advancement opportunities. If you are not liked for any reason then your experience at this company will be very trying and difficult. Your team and the team management will spend there time trying to force you out and making your time and the company miserable. You will be tasked with jobs that are insulting and belittling. All your effort and hard work will not be appreciated and will be overshadowed by extremely minor mistakes. Certain members of the management team will belittle you in front of outside vendors and forget trying to defend yourself, because it will be your fault that you were embarrassed and insulted in front of outside members. Make sure that you document every interaction with management with a follow-up email regarding the conversation that you just had with them. Management on certain teams are very disrespectful, talk down to you on a regular basis, make you feel incompetent, and etc. Make sure that you discuss any concerns that management may have with your work before your review or you WILL BE surprised by a very concerning review. Management doesn't discuss any concerns with you or give you an opportunity for improvement before your reviews. Also, forget working with the HR department, everything about that department is terrible, a monkey could do their jobs better. HR is there to protect the company, not the employees rights, so you can go to them with a concern and there will be back lash on you. Overall the company as a whole is good to work for, but is extremely over shadowed by poor management selection and actions.

3.0
Apr 14, 2014

Company in Transition, New Leadership Team Taking the Helm.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, incentive plans, focus on Health/Wellness, & community in the US. The US has been the backbone of top line sales & profitability for the last five (5) years.

Cons

"Typical Dutch" company. If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much. Was on a good track for the future then Europe operations in Bakery dragged the entire organization down. European leadership failed in taking the hard decision to divest / shut down Europe. After considerable profit contribution by the North American operations leadership decided to divest 70% of the business & re-organizes. OK that's business. But in this re-organization not one of the senior leadership position is offered & taken by a non-Dutch professional. Really? Look at the numbers on the website. Profit & fiscal turn-around all occurred in North America with Europe & RoW lagging. Then the two (2) architect's of this divestment & re-organization up & suddenly announce they are retiring at the same time after less than 12 months at the helm. Very un-Dutch like.

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