Syngenta Seeds Reviews

Pros

Good benefits and nice facility

Cons

Too much overtime and unclear work planning

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more contract labor for manual labor

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.

Advice to Senior Management

work more closely with lower level managers to develope plans to work through issues, communicate expectations clearly.

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.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with mor respect and that might help with your turnover problem.

Pros

3 weeks vacation out of the gate

Cons

Pay for staff is not competative. Increases are all but non-existent.
Inadequate staff levels force persons to work unreasoanable overtime.

Advice to Senior Management

Support staff doing the work. Sales will not function without product to sell.

Pros

I really liked how there was always opportunity for improvement or advancement.

Cons

I disliked the constant changes to structure. At times it seemed uneccessary or to create more of a hassle. More communication as to why, would be helpful.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure employees understand why changes are being made and how it improves the company.

Pros

The pay was nice in the beginning. Most people were nice to work with. Learned something new everyday. Nice that this company has a lot of company events.

Cons

Management did not do their job in order to show employees the respect they deserve. I felt that due to seniority some individuals pretty much ran the show, even though they were not in a MANAGEMENT position.

After receiving a raise management change job descriptions that entailed way more work than the pay was worth. Office cliques are unacceptable to me but were very alive at Sygenta.

Advice to Senior Management

For the most part the company was a good company to work for. But due to a ONE man show it was a very stressful place to work while after having an accident. I believe that Management should do their job and not let individuals due to their seniority make the decisions of this company.

Pros

Nice place to work with not much stress. Opportunities to interact wiht other divisions exist. Good balance between work and family.

Cons

Not much career growth and development.

Advice to Senior Management

Career growth and development needs to be addressed.

Pros

This company is a modern employer that recognizes employees needs for job empowerment, security and consistency. Benefits are as good as they can get...

Cons

... salary levels including the Stock Purchase Program however could do better. Carreer paths are not as clerarly defined as they should for a company of that stature.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up with the good work and keep your social concience as demonstrated today. Do not fall into the trap of greed and short term gain, while jeopardizing long term goals and prosperity.

Pros

If you like business transformation, you will like Syngenta

Cons

If you do not like change, and if your comfort zone is small, you will not like working for Syngenta

Advice to Senior Management

Not enough credit is given to those that keep the "wheels on the bus" while the business transformation that is taking place.

Pros

It is a growing company in a dynamic industry. Recent merger of seeds companies and restructuring makes for a lot of opportunity . International company with employee from all over the world at the corporate office. Will provide resources for training and development. Strong global senior management.

Cons

Corporate strategy isn't communicated effectively to staff. Lots of work required, without a lot of recognition. Often staff would work long hours. Recent merger of seed companies makes for a dynamic working environment, but leads to disorganization. Restructuring has creating some stress among staff and this has impacted the moral of the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication of strategy to staff and better operational organization of internal departments with clearly delineated responsibilities would benefit the organization.