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
3.0
Apr 14, 2015

Kinda Sorta Managed Chaos

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great, dedicated and very hard working. Due to the constant change it is hardly ever boring.

Cons

Too much change. Syngenta can't seem to find it's feet. The company relies too much on an outsourcing model. It expects employees to do both project work as well as their day jobs. The pay is OK, some managers are better than others (like at many other companies). I would be very cautious recommending this company to a friend.

1.0
Apr 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- They are open for you to take classes/retrieve hardware/software you need - People are generally very friendly - Beautiful office spaces - Working with newer technologies (dependent on team) - Attempt to have events here and there (holiday calls, happy hours)

Cons

- No one really knows what they want for a product - Lack of experience from Senior/Leads, you will not get much growth from this company, you pave your own growth - Low compensation for a software developer and high expectations without outlook/clear plan on how to get promoted - Toxic culture, leaders/managers feel like they're against each other. No respect towards one another within teams, and working with other teams - Leadership from multiple levels appear unaware of the situation surrounding this location, morale is very low - Refactoring constantly, applications that often get thrown away after they're released because of poor business outlook/experience to build the application - Some higher level developers are very reluctant to accept other people's opinions - Lack of QA, PM, BA in projects. - Lack of process, lots of shotcuts taken in development, team appears to still not be familiar with agile/consistent - Empty promises. They allow you to take classes/learn but do not give you the time/opportunity to take them - Too little/too late, the office saw a lot of turn over and tried to make changes, but it's sad that people had to leave for them to notice

2.0
Aug 18, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Liked people I worked with. Money was good

Cons

Management was horrible. It was the blind leading the blind. The left hand had no idea what the right hand was doing. There is no communication and no one will get rid of people they actually need to.

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