Cargill Reviews

Pros

interesting work and team environment in general.

Cons

salary is mediocre. Slow to respond to market opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

you should not have sold a subsidiaries to weak companies such as refco.

Pros

Very friendly atmosphere and employees encourage longevity. Very knowledgeable employees within the company.

Cons

Need a stronger training program for management as well as a checks and balance for employees to rate management

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need some feedback from employees that will actually bear weight

Pros

great benefits and great pay

Cons

not a lot of opportunity to move up

Advice to Senior Management

Doing very well to work towards complete saftey

Pros

most friendly culture , good communication , fraternity in leader-employee relationship.

Cons

high manpower drain in lower class position, average pay , not good in career promotion

Advice to Senior Management

since much cash balance, don't be pithy in investing on people

Pros

The salary was phenomenal.
The travel was amazing. Was a super generous company, but now due to company's poor performance, they have "hunkered down," where these fringe benefits go away.

Cons

I did the job of 3 people. It is truly impossible to be "caught up," and everything is always urgent and pressing. Too many competing priorities creates a stressful environment. Not only that, but you have too many managers as you report to your business unit manager and then to other managers of business units you support/service on a dotted line basis.

Would definitely never recommend this company to anyone.

Advice to Senior Management

I accepted the position at Cargill because I loved their 4 pillars - with the top one being Employee Engagement and Profit being the last or 4th. I don't understand how in such a short time, this whole pillar concept flipped upside down with no regard to employee engagement. Now, it's just about the profits. What Cargill once stood for - employee engagement - has gone away. Now, Cargill is just another company just like any other. I believe that Cargill was among the top 100 places to work recently b/c of the employee engagement concept. I think that will quickly change.

Pros

part of global company
challenging
great people

Cons

24/7 working - flights constantly
no personal time
lack of consideration towards individual and support
low pay relative to role and market
lack of true business talent (all from agriculture and not much wider experience)
hypocracy -if you are favoured you get all you want - otherwise it's their way or the highway
too much US centrally driven control from functions
they don't give a hoot about you
poor leadership imported from the US - what's wrong with Europeans?
Too US centric

Advice to Senior Management

Change functional leadership
Make businesses accountable
think and act in balanced way - use same standards for all. zero tolerance for some but not others.

Pros

Wealth of knowledge and expereinces, financially sounded company

Cons

Very inconsistence across Business Units and unorganized

Advice to Senior Management

Diversity is key to success.

Pros

Access to many business units, very competitive pay scale.

Cons

Business unit management did not communicate well with field sales.

Pros

You can demostrate your skills and Knowledge, and share those with all the teams.
This company is following ITIL process for any IT deployment, whihc provide you with high experience.

Cons

A huge company were it's not easy to understand all internal process and changes.
However process are full detailed, the tools to make those easiest are not all in place.

Advice to Senior Management

Gap's on communication for incomming organization changes.

Pros

Management took care of their employees.
Compensation was very generous.
It was hard work, but at the end of the day you feel like you accomplished something.
Good opportunity to work in other positions.

Cons

The only really con to the job was that there was some strange hours. Shuttle trains would come in that would have to be unloaded within 24 hours and that created some odd work hours, but as state previously you were compensated generously for that.

Advice to Senior Management

The management did a great job at taking care of the employees, especially when odd work hours were required. On more than one occasion throughout the summer the management team purchased lunch for the entire workforce.