Not recommendable - Anonymous employee Yara Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

financially very stable company, Predictable business plan, Government backing, Innovation attempts in general non innovative environment Some philanthropic engagement

Cons

Upper management exclusively Norwegian (state owned) Intransparent HR processes Promotions based on age/seniority Bad company culture

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Yara Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We care about our employees and are sorry to hear that you rate your work experience at Yara so low. 89% of our employees are proud to work for Yara (according to our employee engagement survey of May 2017 with more than 10.000 responses, i.e. 76%). Diversity & Inclusion is one of our priorities and indeed an area where we can still improve. However, the majority of Yara's Management team is new in their position (average time is around 1 year) and many have way to go to retirement (more than 15 years for more than half of them). Is also not exclusively Norwegian: Yves Bonte and Pierre Herben are Belgian and Lair Hanzen is Brazilian,

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