Syngenta reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,920 total reviews)
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Jeff Rowe

79% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Syngenta has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,920 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Syngenta employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Agriculture industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 6, 2014

Engineers think twice

Recommend
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Pros

The company employs mostly talented and motivated people. The work atmosphere is friendly and mostly cooperative. The company seems to be on a good growth path (not as good as announced to the press).

Cons

Pay and benefits for process engineers in switzerland are not best in class - far from it. Struggled to get any founding for external training training has a cost and the company was not happy to support this (may be this was due to my manager - rather than the company). The company is trying to switch into growth mode after a long period of reduction of its manufacturing and engineering footprint. However there is a spread mentality (in particular across senior managers) of cost containment and cost killing - which means the human resources needed are often not hired - or the people hired have no experience on the topic. As a result lots of projects are being launched without the necessary people and skills available to support the execution - this leasds to poor decisions and endless problems. After a while this became too frustrating for me.

3.0
Feb 19, 2014

Good

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very Dynamic company for biggners and experienced one can more work at redefining the system in more effective and efficient way

Cons

Spend lot for advertizing instead focusing on standardrization polcies and rules

3.0
Feb 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The pros and cons are similar. The leadership team has a ver direct participation in everyone's career. So what can be a very advantage can also be a disadvantage if the relationship with the leadership is not good. The line manager has absolutely no voice in the career development of the employees.

Cons

Pros and cons very similar. Leadership team is the committee who decide everyone's career, independent of line manager opinion / review.

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