Ahold USA Reviews

Pros

Large bonus target rates
Approachable senior management
Lot of internal promotions and opportunities

Cons

Low base salary
Location of main corporate office is in central PA
A few bad managers/dept heads ruin it for alot of people

Advice to Senior Management

Lok at some of your younger dept heads who maybe out for themselves and no one else

Pros

Come and Go as you please.

flex schedule.

easy as cake

Cons

Move up? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 F.T pay is a laugh. My pay is just 100 bucks less then what a lead clerk makes. Worth moving up?

Advice to Senior Management

You should have your Store Managers be able to single out who would make great exempts.\

lose your specialist they are useless drones.

Pros

Decent benefits and close to home.

Cons

Lack of trained help due to labor cost cutting. /Policies not followed with consistency.

Advice to Senior Management

Say thank you for a job well done, raise pay so we can keep better employees.

Pros

It's a job that help paying bills and that you have a place to go to everyday.

Cons

Poor communication. Self serve executives. Lack of support to employees and people development skills. Poor compensation. Full of untalented people who find their way to work around the system and management tends to ignore this problem. A very stressful environment to work in especially after everything moves to Carlisle. A company with no directions and no talents acquisition and retaining skills.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up to the real world and value the people you have. Start treating people fairly and make this a better place for employees to work and grow with.

Pros

People stay a long time because the company treats them well
Reasonably good benefits
Salary is ok, I suppose
People are friendly

Cons

Everything moved to Carlisle, PA
Very short vacation
Management is old fashioned
Horrible technology - very oudated
Unclear how to get ahead

Advice to Senior Management

Get out more. Management acts as if Ahold is the only place to work, and have old fashioned ways of operating. Hire some new people who aren't lifers from within the company or the industry.

Pros

Compensation package (base, bonus, equity, and company car) is very rich and above market, but it comes at a price.

Cons

Very difficult to get decisions made. Organization changes constantly and never allows enough time for the changes to yield benefits.

Pros

The interns are treated well and allowed to do real projects. Questions are encouraged.

Cons

The internship program is new so they are still working out the kinks and experimenting to see what works best

Advice to Senior Management

Be more forward looking.

Pros

Pay isn't bad, especially for location and education/certification "required". To be honest, everybody from the director level down has been largely in the same boat as far as job security. The people left are pretty competent, and I can count on most people to do their job efficiently and with a level of personal interest.

Cons

Since late 2002 we've been in a cycle of down-sizing IT staff, and the future never feels certain. Career advancement has been non-existent, and the training budget (specifically for travel) has suffered. We have lost a lot of good people to outsourcing and an unsteady future, and I know we can't provide the service we used to prior to outsourcing.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that we will find out and notice things going on; transparency will foster a "we" environment, instead of the current "us and them" environment. We don't have to know everything, just don't act like nothing is going on when we all know there is.