Clariant reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(433 total reviews)
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Conrad Keijzer

81% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Clariant has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 433 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clariant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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433 reviews
1.0
Mar 29, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros to working here

Cons

The most dishonest, disorganized, Ponzi scheme of a company I've ever seen. They intentionally understaff regions to keep costs down. When a customer is angry due to poor service because they are understaffed, they pull people from another account until that account complains and do it all over again. They don't care about their customer or employees. The only product they have worth a darn is something they got from Nalco Champion went the DOJ made them divest it during their merger. When that patent is up, they have NOTHING left. They burn through employees like a fiend does their stash. Avoid at ALL costs.

1.0
Mar 27, 2018

Avoid at all costs.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Brand recognition of the company

Cons

This is truly the worst place I have worked. I have worked for companies where sales is king, engineering is king and here cash flow is king and they don't care about anything else. They truly don't care about their customers. I've heard comments like they are going to pay more of we just won't serve them anymore. There is zero trust between managers to their employees. There is even zero trust between different divisions on Clariant. Even if you think your current job is garbage this isn't going to be better.

2.0
Jun 1, 2021

Used to be a good company

Recommend
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Pros

Overall, they have treated me well over the 5 years I've been with the company... moving me into several different positions. While the growth for the general employees is limited, they have done their best to support my career growth.

Cons

At the moment, it is hard to find the positives to work for Clariant given the current work environment, layoffs, imminent divestments and potential sale of the company. I've worked for several different companies and Clariant truly does not care about their employees well being. The layoffs are draining and put a huge strain on the organization for all the service units - IT, Procurement, HR, Logistics. They cut jobs but expect the same service levels and same activities to be continued. As a leader in the organization, it has been hard to motivate teams and see the light at the end of the tunnel when the company has no idea where they are going. In addition, the other biggest issue I have with Clariant is the amount of unethical / unprofessional leaders that have been allowed to continue their behavior for decades - fabricating numbers to help a business case, or laying people off to move their job to a shared service center and then finding out the job cannot be moved - finally going back to the employee to say, "sorry, you actually have a job".

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