New leadership doesn’t know what to do - Senior Engineering Manager Bayer Employee Review

3.0
Oct 31, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture and people highly skilled and professional

Cons

New leadership doesn’t know what to do with the low stock prices, and new ceo has thrown the value of the company through the window, replacing it with his own “dynamic shared ownership” that nobody understands or have experience with.

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Bayer Response
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Thank you for your feedback on Glassdoor. This new and powerful operating model will help keep us mission-focused while putting our customers and products at the center and more power in the hands of people doing the work. This means faster work cycles and continual improvement, enabling mindsets and behaviors and a significant shift in leadership, to name a few of our key principles. This won't happen overnight. Any change of this scale requires tough questions, challenging decisions, and some temporary discomfort including changes to reduce layers and simplify structures. We're working towards that and are thankful for feedback as we move through the process.

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