Pros

There is open access to upper levels of management. They want to engage with full-time workers and their door is always open to ask questions or talk about specific company polices.

Cons

It is a median pay company. The hourly rate was 13.85 for a summer intern. This evened out though because ADM paid for all housing and travel expenses.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a better work/life balance. The workers are very dedicated and it is hard to continuously stay motivated. The company is behind the curve in innovation in terms of telecommuting and flextime.

Pros

New facility in Hazleton Job security, Large company room for grouth

Cons

Inconsistant with pay, allowing time off.
current management will not entertain Ideas about change very stuck in their ways
dont like to be too negative or positive every thing is neutral

Advice to Senior Management

Listen more and follow up with conversations be Fair and Consistant

Pros

Lots of opportunitiy to make in impact on company profitability.

Cons

Disfunction in some of the divisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Main direction coming from support functions (accounting, legal etc) on direction of company. Need to give greater voice to operations.

Pros

The benefits package as well as the flexibility. I feel it is very important that a company be able to work with you on personal issues as needed. Teleworking is also a great benefit! Archer Daniels Midland also opens up doors for opportunities outside of the normal day to day activities. They bring in outside speakers for events and take care of their employees. For the last two years every employee of the company has received a bonus following the fiscal year report. Pat Woertz and the board of directors know that ADM would not be where it is today without the colleagues that work for the company. This sort of appreciation shows that ADM understands that there is more that just money to be made but also building relationships.

Cons

From time to time communication can be an issue. Some departments or locations may hear news before others or the rest may never hear the news. Pat has done a great job trying to turn this around. She gets out in front of her colleagues as much as possible and sends out regular communications via the email system. Pat also made a great effort to visit outside locations and to get to know those who work for ADM. Even with these great strides, more needs to be done. Information needs to flow freely through the company. There is not one place that you can find all announcements. They are spread out on the intranet or on bulletin boards.

Advice to Senior Management

ADM is headed in the right direction with the look at the diversification of feedstocks. Keep up the good work.

Pros

It's a great place to learn how to trade grain, but not a good place to work if you DON'T want to trade commodities as a career. Basically, if you come in trading right out of college, its pretty difficult to transition into a different part of the company. The the long haul traders have been there for thirty years, and all they have done is trade grain or a different commodity.

Cons

Long hours during the fall (harvest). The job involves trading - hitting the phones, lots of noise, constantly.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm glad you're taking safety seriously.

Pros

good experience. A good place to start right out of college. the company is very large and has alot of people with good experience. time off is never a problem. this is however dependent apon location. wide variety of jobs and movement between different kinds of jobs is possible. worldwide company which provides opportunities to relocate.

Cons

career advancement is very slow. pay is below the average. turnover is very high which means that you are constantly training new hires. Very few pay grades which means that you are going to get cost of living raise every year and never see a pay increase based on experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Compare wages in the industry and supply the employees with this wage.