AkzoNobel reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,871 total reviews)

Gregoire Poux-Guillaume

72% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

AkzoNobel has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,871 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AkzoNobel employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufatura industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Sep 11, 2015

Too much internal focussed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Global and dynamic company Innovative products

Cons

Too internal focussed Unclear priorities Lack of leadership

4.0
Sep 10, 2015

Decent place to work - high on ethics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good talent. Fantastic ethics. Great products. Focus on innovation. Healthy work environment. Systems and Process orientation

Cons

Global organization complexity and too many layers - takes away from agility and decision- making at local level.

3.0
Sep 10, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting chemistry work if you get a chance to do any real work.

Cons

Extremely bad managers, the best people seldom get promoted and it is all politics more than common sense which steers the direction of the company. In R&D when I was there there was a managers retreat- of 66 in the building, only 4 of us were left who were not "officially" managers. Lots of people trying to micromanage a very few who actually do the real work... whenever the strategy proved to not work, they would reorganize so that the people responsible for the bad strategy would no longer be "responsible" for it. Reorganized 6 times in 7 years I was there!

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