Kellogg Snacks Reviews

Pros

company car
free gas
cell phone
starting pay

Cons

waiting for promotion
need college degree

Pros

The pay is pretty good. It could be a great company if they had an effective PM program.

Cons

Unfairness in promotions and unable to hire people with the ability to do a good job.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest back in the company and hold the leadership team and maintenance accountable. Stop throwing money away on ineffective contractors.

Pros

Benifits are good, working with some of the store managers can be good, always busy never really any down time

Cons

Pay isnt very good. They gave us company cars but now there taking them away as of jue 1st, management wants you to do there job for them, theres always fingers being point for bad work that you did not do, they rather higher upper management from outside the company then giving someone that has worked for the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Give your current employees a chance to move up, it may work out better then you think. Work on the communication of whats going on at store level. It gets really annoying when your boss sends product in to find out that its not actually going to be on sale that week, and give your TSRs more respect then what they get, they are the backbone to the company. They do all the work and get no rewards for it. If there sales rep can bonus for hitting a number then the TSR should bonus to because they put in a lot of work getting product out on the floor and incremental displays. No incentive for them, then why try to push for extra product?????

Pros

Big company room for advancement if you work hard. You have to be willing to go above and beyond to satisfy everybody.

Cons

management does not help or listen when you have problems. they expect it done without help. no excusses what so ever.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to complaints

Pros

Pay is 38,000 plus bonus... if you can hit the numbers. Car, Car Insurance, Gas Card. Good Health Insurance. 401K

Cons

Overworked! 12 to 14 hours a day. They say it's a 5 day work week but it's really usually 6 or 7! No overtime pay, no comp time! Not enough part-time help. Part timers don't want to work or call in sick, so Territory Managers have to pick up their slack. This is a very physical job. It's not just ordering, you put it on the shelf, displays etc...

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of the people who do the hard work. Give us some help or at least time off for extra time worked. Just because we are salary doesn't mean we should work so many hours. It's not just an occasional incident, it's more the daily rule. We are overworked. When will it stop, when someone falls asleep driving and kills someone. It's just a matter of time before that happens. We need more Territory Service Reps or at least Part Time Merchandiser hours!!!

Pros

Large local employer.
Pretty good health care
One of the most modern bakeries in the Kellogg system
Located in a great community

Cons

NO PAID SICK DAYS FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
Employees have been refered to as "bodies" instead of employees of associates.
Vacation is horrible for hourly. One week after one year, two weeks after three years, three weeks after eight years, four weeks after fifteen years, and five weeks after twenty-five years.
NO PAID SICK DAYS FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
Ungodly work hours followed be weeks off for no production.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees as people instead of "bodies".
Quit the us and them mentallity between upper management and hourly workers.
Offer paid sick days so people who are ill don't have to work in a food manufacturing environment instead of staying home and getting better.

Pros

Kellogg's is a great employer. The company believes in the core values. Senior leadership does appear to support the core values.

Cons

The company is very compartmentalized. Morning foods takes a financial priority as that division is core business.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn that there are people within the organization that will observe the core values in public, but behind close doors treat employees very very poorly. Those people do not understand the intent of the core values, which will cause a lot of excellent talent to leave the corporation.

Pros

*Compensation
*Benefit Package
*Ease of Required Tasks
*Excellent Vacation Package
*Offers Domestic Partner Benefits
*Tuition Reimbursement
*Plenty of overtime opportunities for those who want it.
*Bonus incentive.

Cons

*No work/life balance.
*Stringent attendance policy.
*Not family friendly.
*Changes rules on a case by case basis, going against what is stated in the handbook.
*Management favoritism.
*No job performance feedback.
*Management AND human resources has allowed harassment based on sexual orientation to go on for 5+ years (by the same person) and hasn't disciplined the party at all, yet wrote ME up for not "toughening up."
*Has openly allowed discrimination due to a disability.
*Inept management.

Advice to Senior Management

Grow a backbone, be consistent and stop trying to be "friends" with the people you're managing. It makes you ineffective.

Pros

Well known company, that has a strong reputation for product quality and great name recognition with in the CPG industry.

Cons

unfortunately, a company that relys far too much on nepotism as it pertains to promotions. Also, there is a push to recruit college educated personal, for positions that don't require a college education. There's no point in having the most educated workforce, if you aren't utilizig their education.

Pros

tons of freedom allowed to plan your day. company car.

Cons

low pay long hours constant changes. only job i have had and made less money as each year went on rather than more money.

Advice to Senior Management

in years past this was a good way to earn a living understand that employees want to progress each year not regress.