Yara reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(539 total reviews)

Svein Tore Holsether

73% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Yara has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 539 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Yara 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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539 reviews
1.0
Aug 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are nice, smart people working here. Beautiful office.

Cons

Management cannot design or engineer a product people want to buy, refuse to listen to individual contributors who do, and can only seem to accomplish multi-million euro outsourcing contracts for IT and consulting services. Career growth is limited because lifetime employees of the parent company cling to these no-accountability jobs for dear life. The level of innovation they're capable of can be seen by downloading the apps we've produced, some of which have been used dozens of times by farmers. As for organization, we had trouble keeping soap dispensers filled and coffee machines working. When I relocated for this job, I had to navigate the Berlin apartment rental market and Visa bureaucracy with little to no help from the company.

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Yara Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to review us and giving us valuable feedback. Your comments has been shared with the management as points for improvement!
1.0
Aug 19, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working hours, good benefits

Cons

not enough developers doing the actual work, way too many "managers" who spend their days in meetings talking about the same topics over and over again. complete lack of strategic direction and very uninspiring and disengaged bosses who play the blame game and only talk to a few people. those making the decisions are in survival mode and quite insecure so the support you receive is non existent. what is worse, is that actually close to nothing gets done, and the people who care leave out of frustration. it's not a safe place for proactivity.

1.0
Dec 1, 2023

Toxic management that does nothing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Yara used to be an excellent place where people are openminded and collaborative. I met a lot of good people here. Good benefits with 28 days leave despite below market rate pay.

Cons

Recent years hired a lot of old school management people, who doesn’t do anything besides bringing in their whole kampung of “management ppl” in. Toxic culture in some managers highlighted but swept under the carpet, causing many good people to leave. The new management is unempathetic and treats people like disposables. Some managers are even verbally abusive with unethical practices conducted. People who asks or challenges perspectives are punished. People are staying on only because the market is bad. But morale is extremely low, especially in the digital/product teams. Growth is slow - unless you’re a “management” person. Rules can be bent for you in that case.

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Yara Response
2y
Thank you for providing Yara with feedback. We endeavor to ensure that all our employees feel respected and heard. We are a value-centered organization and take our commitment to the health and well-being of our employees seriously. We strongly encourage employees to raise any concerns directly within their line organization so we can address individual issues.
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