Cargill Reviews

Pros

Approachability of people irrespective of their position and eagerness to exchange knowledge & information.

Cons

Visibility of your work gets masked if there's insufficient interaction between you and your boss.

Pros

Global and multinational, a lot of career opportunity

Cons

Can feel more like a club where seniority with the company counts. Can be difficult for new employees to feel welcomed into the club.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to making Cargill more welcoming to new employees so they stay and become long term employees - it's a worthwhile investment.

Pros

Caring Atmosphere, Engaged Culture, Courteous People.

Cons

Slightly low starting salary, Communication between Business Units.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep coop and internship program active.

Pros

Cargill offers a great opportunity to learn and the ability to work in different environments in the same company. You may have the chance to move to many different geographies.

Cons

Pay is low compared to competition. When you consider the responsibilities given compared to other companies the pay is even lower.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend the time with your direct reports to give feedback and coaching. Have frequent meaningful discussions with your direct reports concerning development opportunities.

Pros

The breath of job opportunities not only in NA, but globally.

Cons

Size of comapny makes it difficult to broadly communicate and complex to understand.

Pros

Great opportunity Respect.. Abide by all laws. Great team work. Family business. Willing to take long term risk. Honest company.

Cons

Still some glass ceilings but getting better. Wondering if we are not now forcing the pendulum, unnaturally the other way, which can have a negative effect

Advice to Senior Management

We are people who are loyal to Cargill. Don't abuse or take advantage of that. Trust is very hard to come by once it is lost

Pros

Cargill has big ambitions. It is, or used to be, a great place to work but the current sr. management seems intent on breaking that.

Cons

Cargill is a very asset-focused company that can't decide if it wants a rough trading culture or a more insightful customer-focused one. The recent layoffs destroyed a lot of the culture because they were so random and not attached to performance, and were handled so very poorly. The Tartan program costs the company millions of dollars a day but no one is courageous enough to challenge it.

Advice to Senior Management

Give back your bonuses to help spread the pain of the current financial distress that has destroyed many careers, including many people who joined Cargill just months ago, recruited from across the country and you left them high and dry.

Pros

Good resource manager, gave good direction to the team. Was open to ideas and flexible. Should not have relied as much on the PMs since they were not very technically savvy

Cons

No structure. The Project manager wore multiple hats and did not let the dev team do its job. Over promised and under delivered. Did not have a good grasp on the product being used.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a better grasp on the team and work being done. Deicde where the money should be put. Have the job descriptions more clear

Pros

Relatively good benefits
Friendly environment
City area
Work-life balance, which is being abused by certain employees.

Cons

No training whatsoever
Regional IT community is aging together with its technology, lacking industry experience, creativity and ability. Most capable people have left for good.
Decisions are often politically motivated compromising quality

Advice to Senior Management

Albeit the ongoing management rhetoric asking people not to be content with mediocrity, at least the regional IT organization has mediocrity written all over it. Keep good people and be serious about using IT as your business tool, commit to the cause, else no SAP or whatever ERP can bring its value to Cargill.

Pros

It is a place where talent is developed, everyday is very busy if you want a challenging and dinamic work enviorment this is for you.

Cons

It is a place where talent is developed yet sadly many times the intellectual capital developed leaves to the competition for increased compensation. In addition, some talent may leave because they are poorly managed; it only takes one weak link in management to break the development chain. Employees may tend to resign not because they are not committed to the company but because of poor management of a senior manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior leadership has undergone a changing of the guard. This new senior leader should take inventory of management and who should stay on the bus or be removed. As the numbers do not lie high turn overs of exceptionally talented and developed employees is an indication of a weak link in the management team hampering the evolution of Cargill Americas Marketing group from a Good to Great business unit for Cargill, Inc.