A big let down - Anonymous employee Indigo Employee Review

Having worked at Indigo for a year and a half (which is a longer than a lot of employees) I can honestly say I’ve never been more let down by a company. I started in a department that had only existed for a month or so and had no training whatsoever, just a day to observe and somewhat practice a pitch. I had high high hopes for the company and what they were doing in the ag industry. Strong values that aligned with my own and a general good feeling that they could truly make a change in an industry that hasn’t changed in years. The first few months were a whirlwind. The company moves a million miles an hour and we were bounced from task to task. I don’t believe we had two consecutive months where we were focused on the same goal. In fact our sales incentives were changed each month (and occasionally in the middle of the month). Indigo continually released new programs or products and changed the offering many times. So much so it became difficult to speak to a grower about the offering because it was very likely to change, or had already done so and not been communicated. The sales goals quickly became unrealistic and were the same across the board. It didn’t matter if your territory could even grow the crop you were expected to sell. They are now focusing on the marketplace and seem to be doing away with the microbial treatment. The demands for transactions are unattainable and they’re still struggling to prove timely payment to the growers. Not to mention laying off a large chunk of people right before the holidays and are now dissolving an entire department with only a weeks notice. They want to make you think they genuinely care about growers and their employees, when the truth is they don’t seem to care at all.