Kellogg Reviews

Pros

Kellogg's continues to have a great culture in hard economic times and I still feel that they care about the employees .

Cons

There is a level if the good ol boy system when looking for advancment.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't make decisions that have major impacts of the employees bases only on the paper value.

Pros

Outstanding benefits, great people, solid resume builder

Cons

The benefits keep you there, pay should be more for what reps make the company, little advancement potential, company identity crisis since acquisition of Keebler and their talent pool, self reporting system is severely flawed.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep Kellogg and Keebler segregated as Power of K only works if the brands displayed compliment each other.

Pros

Depending on one's goals this is a good company to get experience and, at least for now, an impressive company on one's resume who seeks future career opportunities elsewhere. Kellogg's has a respectable reputation with their customers.

Cons

Kellogg's under "The Old Guard" was headed in the right direction in the market place and with it's people. Since it's restructuring Kellogg's it now directed by a different culture and mindset causing much uncertainty regarding job security for it's sales force. This was a Company constantly informing the sales force where we were versus budget for last year, what we needed to meet budget, or if we were over budget and most importantly the actual percentages over or under budget we were on a monthly basis. Now we are in the dark. The sales force at one time would get all the tools required for success but now information regarding our accounts come to us little and too late. Years ago when I started life with Kellogg's EVERYONE spoke with pride within and outside of the company how great we were. No More!

Advice to Senior Management

Why would you take a Company with a successful track record run by people who knew the business and replace those successful "Cereal" people with management from another corporate culture and from other than a cereal background to run the company? Why would you replace people who developed exciting new products with people who now reintroduce products or similar products discontinued a year or two prior?

Pros

great benefits, and a stable company to work for.

Cons

work hours are crazy, not enough pay, and unorganized.

Advice to Senior Management

pay your employs better, let more then 8hr off work in a 24hr time frame, organize production better,and hire who is right for the job instead who management knows or has relation with.

Pros

- Benefits
- Pay
- Work/Life Balance

Cons

- Lack of entry level roles at the HQ level

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the momentum going and always invest in and listen to your people

Pros

Great company as far as learning the CPG industry. Fortune 500 company. A lot of stability, you have to work to get fired.

Cons

Only upward mobility in in Battle Creek, MI. People reward for seniority instead of performance. People are entrenched in roles making it difficult to move up

Advice to Senior Management

Change the culture to a more innovative and dynamic one. Look to the googles and apples of the world to improve. Promote hard work and improvements as well as a work life balance.

Pros

Pay
Nostalgia
Cute cuddly characters
Free product
Good benefits

Cons

The company has not kept pace with the competition. Systems are antiquated, inadequate funding for safety and quality, training/development. If you are hand-picked and went to an exec's alma mater you are on the fast track despite inexperience/qualifications. If you a from any school in Michigan, you are golden. Battle Creek is not someplace for you if you enjoy diversity in any aspect of the word. The pay is good which makes it difficult to leave but with the change in company culture over the past 3-5 years, people are cutting their loses and bailing; executive turnover is unbelievably high and direction of the company changes on a dime to fall in line with whatever the latest big thing is that General Mills is doing.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the people; create more opportunity for advancement outside of Battle Creek; put your money where your mouth is on investing in people, safety and quality.

Pros

summer hours for 8 months

Cons

below avg pay and not can reach a plateau at the jobs offered there

Advice to Senior Management

Good Leadership at the time and looked to improve the employees

Pros

Excellent benefits. Nice accommodations while traveling.

Cons

Total disregard for your personal life (no work life balance).
Managers way too busy with meetings all day to deal with your problems/issues/questions
Not included in key meetings and conversations that play a role in your work load.
Reactionary rather than being pro-active.
Too many meetings!!!!
Work all 3 shifts sometimes in the same week.
I hope you like 11-14 hour days as a norm.
Might be a great company when working at the creek. Surely not easy in the plants.
All plants are not created equal.
Competitive pay or so they say. The same job is advertised for another location at 100k a year. Same job as mine. I get paid 40K less than that. Fair????? I think not.

Advice to Senior Management

When an employee goes to his manager and says that working all different shifts every other week is making his family life difficult don't tell the employee "that's your job and get it done any way necessary". That makes people want to quit. How about hiring that guy some help in stead of burning him out.

Pros

Great work life balance and the company has a passion for its people. Management treats workers with respect and do not take themselves too seriously. Plus, summer hours are great.

Cons

Battle Creek and its general surrounding are quite depressing. Very difficult to attract young talented employees to such a desolate area.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work. Don't change your transparency and continue to treat your workers with the utmost respect and dignity.