Syngenta reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,919 total reviews)
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Jeff Rowe

79% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Syngenta has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,919 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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2K reviews
2.0
Jan 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Promotes rotation within the company, great investment in employees careers via technical and leadership classses

Cons

politically charged, no information sharing, disconnected, hard to determine who does what due to constant changes, poor communication of how we are getting from A to C, long hours with limited praise, third party vendor does not take responsibility for quality of work, no plan to bring third party up to expectations.

2.0
Aug 17, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For those in a particular discipline, you get the option of working from home quite a bit, which is nice. The campus was located close to my home so commute was easy. Learned a lot about plants and genetics.

Cons

You will literally work yourself to death, yet management rarely acknowledges this fact or thnks you for your hard work. There is little communication from senior management to the "worker bees", and where there is, it is convoluted and unclear. Since they are a global company, you're expected to be at anyone's beck and call 24/7. Management constantly changes their mind about things but never communicates those changes to those responsible for making those said changes until it's too late.

2.0
Apr 1, 2020

Distant third

Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Syngenta for roughly 7 years. Early on in my career it had a very focused set of corporate values and was genuinely about attempting to honor those

Cons

When the company was privatized it managed to lost its focus and vision. Core values were completely changed and ignored. Instead it became na army of white men playing financial parlor tricks to pad the valuation

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