Hormel Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hormel

Pros – Great Salary, challenging, lots of opportunities

Cons – Corporate office is located in Austin, MN and there are very few jobs for peoples spouses who do not work at Hormel

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hormel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work experience in many different departments

Cons – Lot of weekends worked, longer hours some days

Advice to Senior Management – There doing the best they can with what they know

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hormel as an intern for less than a year

Pros – -Very involved upper management with many opportunities for advancement.
-Interesting project based work

Cons – -None that come to mind

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hormel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good opportunities for college grads.

Cons – You work a lot of weekends.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hormel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Continues to inovate with successful new product launches.
Great training when you come onboard.
Logistics, product quality, and policies are consistent.
Great Area Managers that are knowledgable and resourceful.
Marketing provides great materials to help you sell.

Cons – Being asked to do more with less more and more.
Must be ready to move. As soon as you don't you lose all support.
Mid-management can be vindictive and withold promotions if you aren't willing to pick up and move to anywhere they want to send you.
Mid management is out of touch with what is realistic and they apply standards nationwide with no regard for regional differences.
They continue to rely, measure, and evaluate on quantity instead of quality of work activity.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop ignoring the work life balance feedback given on surveys.
Reduce the wait period to get a title change when given new responsibilities. It makes no sense. Twice the work with small increase after a 2+ year waiting period?
Become much more progressive when it comes to using technology. It can increase efficiencies, reduce office time. Re-evaluate the changing industry. Does the current alignment and structure still make sense considering the changes?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hormel full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Better pay than Seaboard, Smith-field, Farmland, Swift (JBS), or Tyson.
Much less stress than average packing house jobs ...

Cons – Unless you have a frat brother, uncle, or god-parent as a VP, or are a minority, you will find promotions VERY slow ...and unless you really understand being on your feet 8 to 10 hours a day working in cold cold environments six to seven days a week ..you might be in for a shock ..

Advice to Senior Management – Take the patronage out of the internal job bid system, and make it a level playing field, stop hiding choice jobs for favorite employees.
Quit trying to bring in young college kids who are completely over whelmed by working 10 plus hours days 6 and 7 days a week, and poach more employees from other companies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hormel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Pension, Profit, Sharing, Bonus if you can get vested. If you fit into culture you'll be fine.

Cons – Locations, Capital Project Frugality, Culture

Advice to Senior Management – Get to know your employees strengths and weaknesses and put them in a position to be successful. Develop and recruit more compassionate leaders. Run morale cripplers out of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hormel as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Good pay. Mostly good people to learn from. Give you lots of responsibility and tasks to complete. What you do is value added for the company in most cases. Learn a lot about yourself as a manager and how well you will do in this type of field.

Cons – I don't have anything to write.

Advice to Senior Management – I don't have anything to write.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hormel full-time for less than a year

Pros – Job security, pretty good benefits

Cons – Hard to move up if one starts in the union

Advice to Senior Management – Fire your bad employees so you have room for good ones. Easier said than done, I know.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hormel full-time for more than a year

Pros – None. Working with this manager is awful.

Cons – This company is prejudice. This is not a good company to work for. Fortune 500 but treats hourly people with no respect.

Advice to Senior Management – The HR dept . is useless and will not take your complaints seriously.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company