Pioneer reviews

Long hours, not enough employees to cover work load in certain areas. Not enough time to spend with your family. Too many meetings take employees away from their job too much. Merit increases are very poor considering the great sales year and profit margin Pioneer has enjoyed. Merit increases doesn't reflect the good performance review that you received.

Far too many programs rolled out each year that wasted time and productivity only to never work or accomplish anything. No time off - as an agronomist you have to expect to be busy during the growing season but it became ridiculous. I often had 30 days of PTO to use and would lose most of these days. As a member of the location management team I assisted in merit/raise decisions for hourly employees and it was shocking. These employees would receive insulting 5 or 10 cent an hour raises - the leftover merit money would go in chunks to us - the management team members. Safety program was impressive but turned in to a situation where if you broke a rule you were fired, yet if you took time to do things safely which hurt your productivity - you were probably reassigned or let go. Limited opportunity for advancement regardless of what you've heard.