Symrise reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(400 total reviews)
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Dr Heinz-Jürgen Bertram

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Symrise has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symrise employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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400 reviews
1.0
Nov 18, 2015

Horribly Mismanaged

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wide flex time options, unlimited sick days, good people at the lower level of the org chart. Puts money into facility to keep things up to date although the process is slow.

Cons

Management is a quagmire. The upper echelon in Germany is completely out of sync with American business and the US management team. Upper and middle management are a wasteland of the worst kind of leaders imaginable. You'll be hard pressed to find a worker who doesn't have their resume out, looking to jump. You can't blame them as firings and mass layoffs are frequent - they are currently on a 3 year cycle for cuts. Because of this, turnover is very high. HR at Symrise is full of genuinely terrible people - unapproachable and disingenuous. Because of all this, the culture is miserable and unhappy.

1.0
Oct 18, 2018

Promised

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Worked in the warehouse. Getting paid 12.50 an hour but had a lot of over time.

Cons

They said I had unlimited sick days but that wasn't true

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