PepsiCo – “PepsiCo is losing finance people in the worst economy since the Depression. No one is following where we're leading.”

Pros

Looks great on the resume
Good professional learning curve
Some good systems, SAP exposure in certain areas
Highly driven people

Cons

Highly driven people

 "PepsiCo Chicago" is treated as a PepsiCo "Chicago". They're not us which is what prompted this review. Take this in a relative stride but you are an acquired company and not core PepsiCo. Your assimilation has been something akin to Germany taking Poland without tanks but not smiling. The realities of working in NY are far more stark; 60hrs wk during down cycles, no work life balance, Summer what?, just no pleasantries.
The AOPs are a mess, the massive system integration exhausting and costing too many brand people, the flight of leadership to outside has been covered by the press in Business Week, Ad Age, and the Wall Street Journal thrice times.
We are losing mid & upper mgrs in droves and should be. Indra has positioned this company for disaster.
"We need more consultants in here", "If the world is a hand and the large nations are the fingers, then the U.S. at times acts as the middle finger towards everyone?" We have lost all of those brand seasoned guys and replaced them with ibankers and consultants. Bad ethic. Poor Chicago's brands have been pummeled by her direction, what was she thinking with the Tropicana and Gatorade branding this year??? You just can't repair that kind of share loss.
The turnover is huge and the questions that perspective replacement candidates ask are difficult to answer pretending we're still a leader in the industry anymore. No one is following where we're leading. We already hit the iceberg and the people leaving know what's happened.

Advice to Senior Management

Put down your synergy report showing xyz, drop the bs consultant speak, and be a man and quit. Or take your work by the horns and steer some concrete change because you know what you are talking about. We are littered with type A's who are all front & no back.
Hey Indra how many years have you sold Orange Juice? Because we've been selling it for decades and you just took the picture of the freakin Orange off the carton.