Evonik reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(820 total reviews)
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Christian Kullmann

56% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Evonik has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 820 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Evonik 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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820 reviews
4.0
May 19, 2018

Dependable, solid company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, they do not change so fast, as with most German companies, more or less loyal to employees. They are trying to change the culture, more diversity and appeal to the youth.

Cons

They do not like risk. They ask you to be entrepreneurial, but don"t like if you fail or are too different. This is a German company and your career will slow down at mid-level manager, only if you stay in the US. This is just a matter of math, as 90% of executives are based in Germany.

3.0
Apr 25, 2018

Taiwan Branch has a lot of organizational and administrative issues...

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Pros

- It's a comfortable place to work and live if you plans to retire here. - Compared to other local Taiwanese companies, Evonik Taiwan is considered generous to its employees, but not as good as other foreign multinational companies in Taiwan. - Not many rules inside the office.

Cons

- The HR in Taiwan is very unprofessional: >>We don't know what they are doing except chatting in the staff room. They don't need to recruit much because we don't hire much, very low employee turnover because it's a comfortable place to retire.... >> HR does not plan training and employee development. They only hired external trainers or ask colleagues to do internal lectures. And no employee development plan is ever organized. >>They even ask our cleaning lady to distribute our payslips. >>HR communicates very bad with all colleagues. People find no transparency in the company. >>HR is very messy. Normally, ll employees sign 2 copies of employment contract one for HR to keep and one for self keeping. However, Evonik Taiwan HR does not even do their documentation very well. Some employees even have two contracts without HR ever asking to collect 1 copy......for more than few years...they still have the 2 copies. >> Honestly, the Taiwan HR and admin are blocking Evonik Taiwan to progress. - Expatriate presidents are not fully aware about the Taiwan regulations and real situation inside Evonik Taiwan. The information they would and could hear are mostly from the same group of people, especially the HR and Admin. They have no real clue what the employees are really feeling. - lay offs rarely happen. It could be a advantage too, but it also indicates that employee who don't perform well could also stay in the company forever.....it no value-add, it's dragging the organization. - No one care about employee development except sales people who care about their own development.

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Thank you very much for your feedback. Evonik Taiwan holds regular meetings between elected employee representatives and management team, after which all decisions taken in these meetings are shared with employees of Evonik Taiwan. The management team follows up and tracks progress of each of these measures. Evonik Taiwan values the regular communication with our employees. Therefore we constantly encourage employees to communicate through these channels to make Evonik Taiwan better.
5.0
Feb 26, 2018

Interesting

Recommend
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Pros

good company, nice environment, good work culture, team management is nice

Cons

over all work culture is good so far......

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