Frito-Lay Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Frito-Lay as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - The pay for HR interns is outstanding ($2,500+ bi-weekly and a $5,000 relocation package).
- Very strong brand to put on your resume
- High potentials are moved around a lot (lots of relocation checks and ability to get great experiences

Cons – - Very difficult to survive without a strong network (not bad in and of itself but who you know is sometimes more important than what you can do)
- Hours are sometimes extremely long

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time

Pros – Good starting salary, bonus. Hourly employees are super!

Cons – Work required on weekends, holidays. Leadership does not support front-line managers or understand the realities of their jobs. Too many managers told "you're next" for promotion to the same jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – Be real with your teams; support their efforts and try to make it out to the production floor once or twice a year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay part-time

Pros – There is no other place in the area that offers such a high pay rate.

Cons – The transition from part time to full time is nearly impossible, therefore, no benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Frito-Lay full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Thier benefits are really good but a little expensive. Being an RSR sales rep, you can make alright money.

Cons – The company has been going down hill because of new management. You will work a lot of hours, holidays, and weekends. Their communication is horrible and it makes the job very stressful a lot of the time.

Advice to Senior Management – Please work on better communication with your employees. Also, realize that your employees are valuable and are what makes the company money. If you respect and take care of them, they will take care of you. Frito Lay has gone down hill for sveral years now and most of your employees are very unhappy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good pay, benefits, career advancement is possible down the line.

Cons – Extremely stressful, 0 work-life balance

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time for more than a year

Pros – Decent Pay for the work.

Cons – Profit over morale. Constantly demanding (unreasonanly) higher perfomance. No sense of direction by management.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great pay with some great benefits

Cons – upper management out of touch with reality

Advice to Senior Management – spend some time on the front line to get a better understanding of whats going on in the real world

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time for more than a year

Pros – good benefits and OK hourly wage

Cons – You work your butt off on holidays, 12-14 hours and then at the end of the week they make you cut your hours so you wont get overtime. they do this on Holiday pay also. There are no raises for seniority, only if you want to move up to a driver. You work every Sat and Sunday and every holiday pulling 2-3 shifts without OT.

Advice to Senior Management – We are the first people to react with customers and store management. We have so many things that customers tell us but the sales management could care less what we have to say. Its all a numbers game with them for bonuses.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Frito-Lay part-time for less than a year

Pros – -Decent wages.
-Union.
-Good Overtime.
-Good job security once you get into the union.

Cons – -Very little supervision. I worked at Frito for half a year, till I was attacked, unprovoked, by a particularly horrible coworker. He ran away from me, and I went straight into my boss' office to report what happened. After a rather pathetic "investigation", they fired both of us. Despite me being the victim, and not fighting back, I was fired for being attacked at work.

This lack of supervision also extends to their forklift drivers, who will speed around the warehouse, neglect using their horn, and act oblivious to their surroundings. Case in point, this is not a safe place to work.

Advice to Senior Management – Do your jobs! Try to actually listen to what your employees are telling you, and put forth effort into your investigations. I know effort is hard, and there are only so many hours in a day, but you are playing games with people's live here.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Frito-Lay full-time

Pros – good pay and benefits work freedom

Cons – change is a constant associates need proper training to deal with this example going from bulk 24 to pre pick after working bulk for 8 years with only 2 days training is not good. its like setting that person up for failure.

Advice to Senior Management – put your associates first it could make the difference between a great route sales associate and failure

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend