Indigo reviews

3.5

34% would recommend to a friend

(614 total reviews)
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Ignacio Martinez

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19% positive business outlook

Indigo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 614 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indigo 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
Jan 17, 2020

A big let down

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Pros

Great benefits Good pay Fast paced and exciting atmosphere

Cons

Having worked at Indigo for a year and a half (which is a longer than a lot of employees) I can honestly say I’ve never been more let down by a company. I started in a department that had only existed for a month or so and had no training whatsoever, just a day to observe and somewhat practice a pitch. I had high high hopes for the company and what they were doing in the ag industry. Strong values that aligned with my own and a general good feeling that they could truly make a change in an industry that hasn’t changed in years. The first few months were a whirlwind. The company moves a million miles an hour and we were bounced from task to task. I don’t believe we had two consecutive months where we were focused on the same goal. In fact our sales incentives were changed each month (and occasionally in the middle of the month). Indigo continually released new programs or products and changed the offering many times. So much so it became difficult to speak to a grower about the offering because it was very likely to change, or had already done so and not been communicated. The sales goals quickly became unrealistic and were the same across the board. It didn’t matter if your territory could even grow the crop you were expected to sell. They are now focusing on the marketplace and seem to be doing away with the microbial treatment. The demands for transactions are unattainable and they’re still struggling to prove timely payment to the growers. Not to mention laying off a large chunk of people right before the holidays and are now dissolving an entire department with only a weeks notice. They want to make you think they genuinely care about growers and their employees, when the truth is they don’t seem to care at all.

1.0
Mar 10, 2020

Most innovative...for losing investor money

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Pros

Pay and Benefits are good if you get to keep them.

Cons

CEO and the COO who was recently appointed by the absentee board are not aligned and consistently deliver conflicting messaging to employees. CEO laughed while addressing how badly the multiple rounds of layoffs have gone but never apologized or took responsibility for the decisions that lead to it. In fact, nobody in a management position had to take responsibility. They have no clue how to measure carbon and are pedaling empty promises to both investors and farmers. Commercial side is a train wreck. I guess that's what happens when you don't have a single person with any industry experience. It's so bad a VP actually decided to put on a pair of Dickies overalls and rubber boats while pretending to be a 'farmer'. Here, "hold my beer" while I alienate the culture of both your employees and your customers. We aren't stupid, you're just ignorant.

1.0
May 4, 2020
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Pros

Salary and benefits are good.

Cons

It's an awful and toxic workplace created by upper management. They make it sound like they care about farmers, but trust me, they absolutely do not from my experiences. The arrogance is unbelievable. This company has raised hundred of millions, yet has nothing to show for it.They have SEVERELY mismanaged growth and overcompensated upper management who've done absolutely nothing good for the company. After the first of the year they laid off hundreds (headlines say only 150, but there were two of those large layoffs actually), and many many more prior to the first of the year. The COO is doing her best to drive the company in to the ground, or that's how it seems. Every one of their company initiatives (carbon, marketplace, etc.) have nothing real to stand on as they are just ideas and nothing more. Everybody just talks in circles, pats themselves on the back after meetings, and nobody really knows what to actually do. What's most appalling right now is seeing how many people they're trying to hire, after firing hundreds just two months ago. They pull you in with a high salary and attractive bonus structure, but your goals are unobtainable and you'll be fired within three months. They'll talk about "start-ups and natural attrition" but this is far beyond that. The most unfortunate part is, after all these layoffs the wrong people have been let go. They refuse to cut upper management who's severe miscalculations have put the company in the position they're in. They've fired the people who are only doing what they're told to do, not the ones who've over and over again made the wrong decisions (against all advice). Upper management absolutely refuses at all costs to admit any level of wrongdoing in the decisions they've made. If you speak your mind, you're on the short list to be fired. If you don't kiss up to managers, you're on the short list to be fired. If you don't tell management EXACTLY what they want to hear, you're on the short list to be fired. Stay away.

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