Mars reviews

4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(4,411 total reviews)
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Poul Weihrauch

91% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Mars has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,411 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Mars employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Sep 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

It’s pretty awesome to be a part of a startup that has the backing of a huge company. Things move quickly at Symbioscience, which allows new employees (called associates here) to have an impact from the start. There’s been a lot of growth recently, both in terms of the company and the leadership. The leaders saw a need for increased focus on employee engagement, and have devoted a lot of time and resources to it over the past year or so. You can also see that they took to heart the need to be more clear and transparent about the segment’s strategy, vision, and direction with associates. Being here, you can see the effect of what they’ve done (or really even just sense the improvement in the atmosphere). The segment just got back their Gallup engagement scores, which not only improved a ton, but were also some of the highest in all of Mars.

Cons

Change is constant at Symbioscience, so if you’re not comfortable adapting, then you’re not going to like it here. Being a startup, it’s a small group, so you also have to be okay with getting your hands dirty and pitching in beyond your official role.

4.0
Sep 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Never had to take my work home with me, unless i wanted too. Freedom to make your job pretty much whatever you wanted too. Lots of training and support on offer, money was never really an object. Very talented associates, meant you could trust in others ability to do a job well and together succeed more often. Management always very understanding when it comes to issues outside of work.

Cons

The company seems to be shifting towards a more profit focus and forgetting all the family values that made it so great. Recruitment and progression method need serious attention, no focus on actual skills relevant to the role, just competencies competencies competencies. As a side effect you end up with people in roles way above their station and people that cannot progress despite the fact they have the ability. Your job seems to be ever expanding, which is fine but never seems to be an even playing field, i.e you can easily take on alot more responsibility than a colleque doing supposedly an identical job on identical pay.

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