Engineers think twice - Process Engineer Syngenta Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company employs mostly talented and motivated people. The work atmosphere is friendly and mostly cooperative. The company seems to be on a good growth path (not as good as announced to the press).

Cons

Pay and benefits for process engineers in switzerland are not best in class - far from it. Struggled to get any founding for external training training has a cost and the company was not happy to support this (may be this was due to my manager - rather than the company). The company is trying to switch into growth mode after a long period of reduction of its manufacturing and engineering footprint. However there is a spread mentality (in particular across senior managers) of cost containment and cost killing - which means the human resources needed are often not hired - or the people hired have no experience on the topic. As a result lots of projects are being launched without the necessary people and skills available to support the execution - this leasds to poor decisions and endless problems. After a while this became too frustrating for me.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Nice people, management is not restrictive, labs are well-supplied, good attitude

Cons

It may be difficult to work with people who speak a lot of different languages, but English is the default and it's not a problem

3.0
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Pros

work-life balance, benefits, and generous vacation

Cons

Significant disconnect between higher-level and lower-level management

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