LANXESS reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(320 total reviews)
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Matthias Zachert

59% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

LANXESS has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 320 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The LANXESS 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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320 reviews
1.0
Aug 20, 2016

New leadership has lost focus on "results", become "crony"

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Multi-national, matrix global management structure is helpful, but reduces decision making speed drastically. Not good in a market, where "speed of response to customer" is key.

Cons

Be careful - certain top leaders in support functions often change their words. Deceitful behavior. Use of "lies" as a tool. These "cronies" lack knowledge, skills, conscience, and decision making ability. Mostly, these cronies create hurdles in your work! Apart from this, the business in India has lost focus on business growth in India (except for one basic chemicals business unit). Employees in global service delivery unit are being kept in dark about their future. This unit is being made irrelevant. New leadership in India is blissfully unaware of cronies and liars around - unfortunately.

2.0
Jul 13, 2016

Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good exposure to regional and global projects. Lots of responsibilities and decision making autonomy, as regional budget management was handled by the local office. Strong understanding of benefits of marketing and PR. Lots of opportunity to learn about the industry and grow professionally.

Cons

Lots of management changes between 2013 and 2015, that made job scope and projects undefined. Challenging period for teams and individuals as communication within team was poor. Global and regional exposure dwindled down along with budget.

3.0
Jun 20, 2016
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Pros

Good benefits, good training and employee relations

Cons

Physically hard work, lots of climbing and always on your feet.

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