Frito-Lay Reviews

Pros

secure,MOR wages because of Brand name seems recession proof

Cons

no Life Work Balance-no recognition for hard work

Pros

Constant training to sharpen your management skills.
Excellent compensation.

Cons

Multitasking overload...too many accountabilities and differing priorities- leads to less effective time in market and with sales team.

Advice to Senior Management

Lighten the load on the frontline.

Pros

Good Pay
Decent Benefits
Sense of camaraderie among fellow rsrs
Super bulk and bulk formats have rotating schedules with 4 day weekends

Cons

Long hours, especially during push weeks
Ridiculous sales plans
Management of customers is at times inept
DSL's straight out of college are generally clueless

Pros

It pays well, everyone works as a team, a place that allows an intern to move around departments and create projects to benefit the specific branches.

Cons

There is not much structure so it becomes a sink or swim situation.

Advice to Senior Management

I enjoyed my time there.

Pros

Good opportunity to meet people from all walks off life, training programs to help develop your professional skills, tasks and process driven company.

Cons

No communication from Senior management, too many hours, raises are unfairly distributed. The more you hit your metrics, the harder they become making it difficult to get a good review to grant you a decent raise. Bonus structure is unfair in the way it is spread across people on the same level as you. Divisions of Pepsico do not communicate.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people fairly across the board, no matter pay scale and level. LISTEN to the people that run your organization on a daily basis. STOP the good old boy networking and promote diverse people throughout the corporate ladder.

Pros

You learn to multi-task like a pro (or better yet, you're forced to.)
Great benefits package.
Worked with some great people.
Learned many facets of business: HR, safety, finance, operations, etc.
Promotes diversity.

Cons

Upper management makes their own rules when it comes to promotions yet preaches the opposite.
Rarely recognized by management for contributions or above and beyond performance.
Senior Leadership has no clue as to what really happens at district level.
Unrealistic goals and expectations.
Motivation by fear.
Cookie cutter style of how the market should look is killing morale, motivation, and the ability for RSRs to maximize pay along with increasing unsaleables/waste but waste budgets keep getting smaller and smaller.
DSLs are now safety, HR, and finance managers instead of being sales managers yet they are bonused on sales.
Worked with or for completely inept people that were promoted simply because they were "diverse."

Advice to Senior Management

Get off you high horse and know what's actually happening at street level within your company. You'll never figure out why sales figures are down or not to expectation if you don't see it with you own eyes. Most lower level employees have a very bad image of most of you because they feel you sit in your ivory palace and dictate orders. Do you not understand that we can put all of the product out there in the world but you can't make a consumer buy it? Sure we could keep trying to put more out but then we'd get in trouble for our unsaleables.

Pros

good pay.
great benefits.
meet hard working people.

Cons

management dont care about anyone but themselves.
this company is ran on money more money you bring in the happier they are, but even then
they want you to sell more or bring in more.
bloodsuckers

Advice to Senior Management

management suck

Pros

GREAT people. Honestly, they were like a 2nd family to me, both my business partners and my peers. The technical and professional competencies I developed there are beyond my wildest dreams. And if you're someone who is driven and super focused on work then this is the perfect place for you. You will succeed and probably love it as much as I did. The benefits were great. Strong focus on metrics & deliverables. Great company committment to diversity and inclusion. Communication venues and technology solutions were far better than I expected, or realized at the time. Pay was good IF you were recognized for the work you were doing. Got to travel a lot and no expense was spared.

Cons

Work Life Balance is awful out in the field. There's a lot of talk about fixing it but it never changed. In fact, talked started encouraging us to focus on the quality of the time we were spending at home rather than how often you were seeing your family. If you have a family the this isn't the place to work long term. Great for young type-A college grads but anyone else will eventually struggle. Also, HQ HR often failed to recognize & reward the contributions of people on the ground. This was really a place where who you knew and how you looked drove your career, pay, etc. Did you fit the "Pepsi Co Pretty" model? Did you suck up to the execs? If not, you're excluded from a lot of things.

Advice to Senior Management

You have great talent in your organizations but run so lean that you burn people out. Instead of talking about balance, start committing to fix it. We considered starting a support group for spouses. That shoudn't be necessary and yet was.

Pros

Pay is very good. Once you have your route down then the hours go down.
Enjoy not being in an office all day/ at all!

Cons

Long Hours, Slow season the pay drops. Upper management doesn't share information with you and it seems like they are always hiding something.

Pros

Respected company providing otstanding prducts with a sincere focus on front line performance with ethics.

Cons

As with any company, change and change management is communicated at differing rates. The effectiveness of transition is somtimes reduced by individual understanding.

Advice to Senior Management

The front line management team needs more information to combat product integrity and more insight into the longer term direction regarding offerings and pricing. Knowledge and training will provide the motivation for success.