The sun sets on Ciba Corporation - Anonymous employee BASF Employee Review

3.0
Aug 16, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ciba provided a work environment that respected individual employees. Overall compenstation plus benefits was good. You have to look at the BASF corporation now to determine what the work environment will become; at least though the business will be viable or more viable then under Ciba.

Cons

After 5 years fighting weak sales growth and margin errosion, the Ciba Corporation finally sucumbed during the economic crisis in 2008. A very weak senior management team was not able to influence the direction. The company was purchased by BASF in Q1/2009 and is in the process of being assimilated into this much larger corporation with a new and different corporate culture.

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Pros

- colleagues - benefits - work life balance - freedom to define most goals yourself

Cons

- career development slow and too political

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