Kraft Foods Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Kraft Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work life balance is good, 22 days off a year is better than most companies. Lots of good people work at Kraft. Company as a whole is doing fairly well. Management makes some effort to advance employees.

Cons – In an office environment, backstabbing is common. HR gets involved and fires people on a routine basis. HR is very inconsistent with rules as well. Everyone is either afraid of HR or uses HR to backstab other people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kraft Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. Very good lab facilities and highly skilled, competent scientists
2. Loyal employees

Cons – 1. Highly qualified, very competent scientist engineers stuck in their career without any promotions for decades. They do not have any clue what is the criterion for the promotion.
2. It is surprising that Incompetent, insceure control freak managers in the management ladder get promoted., while their reportees are stuck in the same level for decades
3. Skills and expertise of highly qualified scientists are being undermined.
4. Managers are more focused on their career, doing upward mangement and less worried about the career growth of their reportees
5. Some of the scientists are reporting to managers who were once trained by the scientists

Advice to Senior Management – Revamp your R&D organization. Empower your scientist and engineers. Do not think that a person with BS degree with an MBA can always become a great manager and can manage technology. You need technically competent mangers who can appreciate the technology and research work by the experts. Make the manger responsible for the career growth of their reportees. Do not promote managers if their reportees fail to progress in their career

Hope changes are coming soon

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

Current Employee – been working at Kraft Foods full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – If your good at doing your job with little to no supervision then working for Kraft is OK .

Cons – After eight years was told I had perfect work record but was being let go because of my zip code.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to manage and stop working so hard trying to make it look like you are. Stop rewarding people who don't deserve it just so you can move up the ladder.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great benefits, company car for Sales reps, Weekends off for Sales Reps as well as 4 vacations a year!

Cons – The monthly objectives felt It was too high to reach at times. It's impossible to make the store managers and your manager happy at the same time. Wouldn't get enough help from merchandisers because they were over their hours or their hours were cut.

Advice to Senior Management – Support your team more, Instead of micromanaging and making them feel like they are worthless.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – great people, great brands, Good company to work for

Cons – Average pay, but who is really overpaying?

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

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

Pros – Enjoyed my peers tremendously. Great work life balance.

Cons – Difficult to move into certain areas except fro those few superstar employees.

Advice to Senior Management – It is always nice to hear some positive feedback now an then. It goes a long way!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kraft Foods full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great people, great Finance program with opportunity to advance

Cons – Not a lot of room for creativity and new ideas - very structured

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kraft Foods part-time for more than a year

Pros – See Customers and friends you havent seen in years, work different hours

Cons – No Benefits to part time employees, Deal with some Retail Stores Who Treat Vendors like crap

Advice to Senior Management – Get involved with Retail Stores who abuse their Employees

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

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

Pros – Flexible work arrangement options, good benefits package, competitive salary, great people

Cons – Senior leaders don't always hear the message, slow- to no- advancement in certain functional groups, very 'numbers-oriented' (i.e., meeting quotas) when it comes to advancement and hiring rather than hiring or promoting the best person for the job.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees! We can be better than the sum of our parts, but communication is a two-way street!

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

Current Employee – been working at Kraft Foods

Pros – Diversity and Awesome for working mothers

Cons – Hard to transferr to other departments

Advice to Senior Management – Help your producer with their career pathing.