Frito-Lay Reviews

Pros

Good benefits. Decent pay but you are basically working a full time job with a part-time job so not so great.

Cons

People are too scared to speak up because they will lose their job. Still the "good old boys club" so if you are woman or a minority good luck. Supervisors have no ethics because they are trying to make sales plan so they will do what ever possible to keep their jobs. Long hours and when you do have a little bit of time it won't happen because they will be on you to put in your usual 50+. Don't go by the employee handbook because the guidelines won't be followed.

Advice to Senior Management

Get ride of the unethical supervisors instead of covering up for them.

Pros

Competitive pay, full benefits, decent hours, great work/life balance,

Cons

Meaningless work, cut-throat environment, and lack of definite promotion scheme and schedule.

Pros

The salary you can make is pretty good but you really have to work hard and long hours. Benefits are good but you pay for them.

Cons

Just like the other reviews- this is a dead end job. There is no hope for progression into management (if you even wanted to) and it's an "us againsted them" attitude when it comes to hourly vs. slary or should I say union vs. non-union. They are always down your throat about numbers and there is not much positive feedback for a job well done. If you do anything against policy or contract- it's an immediate dicipline measure. There is no training or proper communication to help grow your people by management. Very intimidating atmosphere to work in. You're always afraid to get written up and when you do step up and try and defend yourself then you're a troublemaker and get harassed by management until you're afraid to lose your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees the way you'd like to be treated. At the end of the day we all have family and need a roof over our heads and food on the table. Work together and not againsted each other. That wonderful golden rule applies in so many facets in life- and management could use a big dose of it from the top on down.

Pros

Secure company with established market share and top products. Decent pay.

Cons

Extremely early and long days, including weekends and all hollidays. Management consisting of inexperienced college grads that were chosen to meet diversity goals, not for their fit in the job. The company cares 100% about it's sometimes rediculous sales plans and innitiatives, but 0% about the happiness of it's worker ants that carry the company year after year. Repeating saftey meetings every year do not show a care for the employees but rather a fear of the employees suing them. Overall I would have to say that the culture of this company needs an extreme turnaround, but I am fairly certain that it is beyond the point of return.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating lower level employees like expendable, mindless, mules and treat them with respect. Don't squander the vast resources and potential of the company by blindly pushing forward without looking around to see if what you are pushing for even makes sense.

Pros

Steady work No layoffs in sales group. Other route sales reps are supportive to each other. Products are the best brands and pretty much sell themselves.

Cons

Expectations too high for compensation. Employees treated poorly by management. A lot of bullying to try ro motivate to hit the sales number. Management projects unattainable numbers and you are judged by your ability to hit their sales plan. Way too many meetings. Company does not respect employees off time. They try to monopolize every minute of your day.

Advice to Senior Management

Less micro managing. Send route method expert will inexperienced route sales reps not with veterans. Just send a person on the route to flunk you does NOT build morale. They no longer give incentives to frontline employees. All perks go to management like Christmas parties, Thanksgiving turkeys, food for meetings or any other special events. Raise the pay scale. Treat people with respect. Hire management with experience. Young out of college district sales leaders are not benefitng the company or the customer's needs.

Pros

No set time of work, as long as you service your customers appropriately.
Get done when you're done.
Work independently of others

Cons

Frito Lay is a seniority based employer rather than a performance based employer.
Hard to request days off or switch if needed.

Advice to Senior Management

Frito Lay should hire people with work experience for their management roles, versus just hiring people out of college that don't have any work experience. They also need to hold poor performing RSR's accountable to plans.

Pros

You are able to see the entire process from the beginning to end and see where you fall into that scheme.

Cons

It is a very large company that moves slowly and focuses more on cost-cutting than innovation. Hours can get long and you have to deal with it.

Advice to Senior Management

push people to their potential so that they can make the company more competitive. Standard protocol can only do so much.

Pros

Hard work, but worth the component pay and benefits. Flexible hours to keep the work life balance and at the same time make money.

Cons

Scheduled to leave at different times of the day. Different works

Advice to Senior Management

Great management - keep up the good work.

Pros

Overall Compensation Package is fair, but has lots of room for improvement, especially when it comes to front line leadership compensation and reward.

Cons

There exist a none verbal expectation that you must give up your life for the pursuit of the company objectives, and absolute dedication, meaning going above and beyond normal job roles and supplemental duties is a must, or you can forget about promotion opportunities. Being part of the selected crowd is a must as well or you will never be promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Favoritism is live and well within the organization, and the concept of Diversity and Inclusion is a good front, but true Diversity and Inclusion is yet to surface.

Pros

Merchandising can be a laid back job if you get a good route and the pay is better than almost everyone else in the industry. You can probably live some-what comfortably on a merchandisers' pay if you're single with no kids... also, great benefits, company has money to spend (typically good food at every meeting, lots of events throughout the year), Company most likely isn't going anywhere since they own almost every product on chip aisle (job security), Merchandisers have a decent chance at a work/life balance

Cons

Moving up seems to destroy any hope for work/life balance (or at least for like the next 10 years of your life until u get your own route) so either you wait to get a route (as a merchandiser) that works for you schedule wise (but by the way, they all start between 2am-6am) and stick to the same pay forever (as far as I know Merch's don't get raises...?) or move up to eventually to make really good money, but you might be stuck as a relief driver with NO consistency in scheduling for probably at least a good 5 years before even getting a chance at bidding on a route, in which there's no guarantee that you will get one with weekends off, and you'll probably end up with a route that doesn't make the big bucks like you're hoping for. So, if you're a very money driven person, there is good opportunities to make really good money within this company, it's just a matter of how long you'll have to wait to get to where you want to be.