Syngenta reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,919 total reviews)
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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 Agricultura industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 31, 2022

Lots of talk, but very little action

Recommend
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Pros

People at Syngenta are talented and fantastic!

Cons

- Syngenta is a company that talks A LOT about everything. However, they do not follow through on any of the talk. - TERRIBLE HIRING PRACTICES! Syngenta consistently violates its own Inclusive Recruiting and Hiring training as provided on LearningEdge. Additionally, the hiring process is slow and unintuitive - both internally and externally. No care given to candidate experience. Little internal mobility. - Syngenta fears change and cannot commit to decisions without the glacially slow process of decision by committee (a.k.a. Basel). GLT is far removed from the true needs and conditions of the employees. They don't care, but their egos are horrendous. - Support Functions are given very little value due to not being "customer facing". It's a sad day when a HRBP for an entire function and several organizations makes less than a sales representative. - No training provided to managers on how to be managers. Lots of "tips and tricks," but the reality is that folks here are unprepared to manage people. A hardworking IC gets promoted to line manager without any foundational support. - No internal competency training and very little company pride. - Bottom line - Syngenta doesn't actually care about its people.

1.0
Aug 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, Syngenta hiring process is good, they spend good amount of time to screen the candidate and offer good pay package post screening

Cons

There are too many cons that I can’t describe all of them but would like to highlight below points before you take decision to join the organisation. 1) People are living is scary environment where they thin they would be fired at any time without reason. One of the reason for this fear is that Syngenta GFO team hired the people with good pay package but almost 50% attrition is seen 2021 itself & it could be that current management has a target to bring down the head count. 2) Around 11 managers out 15 have already resigned and left the organisation in GFO I2P space. 3) GFO I2P head and supporting HRBP runs the process as if they are running the grocery shop. No broad level approach, 4) While making allegation GFO I2P management team uses the word that don’t suit to corporate world. They even speak the which are used by hooligan 5) Work life balance in GFO is pathetic because people are spending around 14 hours on daily basis but still no motivation or encouragement hence people are getting frustrated. There are many reasons apart from above but thought sharing only these many so that individual can go through it and make concise decision before join this organisation. So guys if you are thinking to join this organisation especially GFO I2P team then please please please think twice before taking the offer else you will land up in wrong place & might spoil your own career

1.0
Nov 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

International Environment. Good Location. Flexible schedule.

Cons

Management disconnected from rest of Company. People have lost trust to Top Management. Future of the company very uncertain. Many non-qualified people in leadership positions. People promoted based on years of service or based on who they know, and not based on real skills and qualifications. Very short-term focused company with Top-down pressure for Budgets and cost cuts. Extremely risk averse with slow decision making process. Very bad Top-down communication process.

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