Kraft Foods Reviews

Pros

Good Location, flexible work week, ability to work from home as needed, good benefits, health club on premises.

Cons

No feeling of stability, timeliness on projects are too aggressive, expectationgs from consultants are less than from employees.

Advice to Senior Management

post all job openings on the Kraft site, so people can apply and not have to walk around asking about jobs.

Pros

Development, compensation, resources and life work balance. opportunity to deal your own schedule. the company sincerely is trying to become into a better world class player.

Cons

It has too much bureaucracy, and there is too much risk aversion. management is risk averse and does not support new ideas as expected. management is crowded of foreign and expatriates and does not allow enough space to develop local talent.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont hire so many foreigners to manage the country

Pros

Kraft Foods is truly a global organization.

Cons

Department seemed to be very much lean on number of staff.

Pros

Company car, expense acct, cell bill paid, internet paid. quartly bonus great perks, again prior to 2007, it has changed

Cons

After being trained as sales representative and performing those duties for 10+ yrs to then becoming a vendor was sad

Advice to Senior Management

You are losing facings and distribution at store level. Out of codes are shopping baskets full. Direct Sales force needed

Pros

Exposure to top brands, great name recognition. It looks good on a resume. Nevertheless, you expereince is tainted by the people you report to. My reporting structure contained some folks who were less than smart and did not really know how to develop a team. Also, too much hubub about too little work.

Cons

Sometimes set in thier ways. Too much focus on the perfect deck. One manager said to me that a deck is a refernce document and should have full citations and references. Somone coming back to it in 3 months shoudl be abel to know what you did. "Really? out of the 3 thousand decks created monthly, someone is going to look up my old 3 month deck?" Let's get on with the work already! Creating a deck is not work!

Advice to Senior Management

I hear the changes are coming and the company has dumped some of the old gaurd. That is badly needed, there were lifers there sucking the air out of the company. Too much patting yourself on the back and too little willingness to move forward and experiment.

Pros

Routine hours, routine work, great people around you to work with. Everyone is career minded and Kraft gives you oppertunity to advance with college background.

Cons

At work having to be interrupted by shoppers asking where products that are unrealated to Kraft foods are located.

Advice to Senior Management

Wish I would of had an oppertunity to remain with the company before finding a full time job.

Pros

You can work from home depending on your manager. Good pay to start. Good room for advancement or career change.

Cons

Low raises and bonus. Not enough manpower to complete the work. Long time span from idea to market. A lot of layoffs all the time.

Advice to Senior Management

You should listen to your employees and note that layoffs are not the only way for Kraft to make a profit.

Pros

Good pay for college grads.
Passionate supervisory staff.
On-stie Continuous Improvement Team.
Global visiblity.
Delicious products.
Great career development in Finance department.

Cons

No work/life balance
Long hours for salary employees (continuous weekend work)
No refresher training for hourly employees (creating work hazards from senior union employees)
Stressful
Lack of resources to do day to day job efficiently

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be direction from leadership, resources to perform work, enforcement of current rules, and the right people need to be put in the right jobs.

Pros

Large corporation with many locations and some nice benefits. Some coworkers are very talented and knowledgeable. Kraft is a well recognized name.

Cons

People are promoted to managers without previous experience or coaching. People are promoted based on kissing up not performance. Employees are not valued as company continually outsourcing.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen and value all employees from top to bottom - current website employees only post cheerleader comments. Post for all what the requirements are for jobs- we see job postings that say you need a certain requirement then we hear from a Kraft leader that there are no Kraft standards. ...degrees

Pros

The pros are related to who you have as co-workers and managers. In genreal the people are smart and dedicated to the company. Many employees have been with Kraft for a long time and that reflects well for the compensation and work environment.

Cons

Strategies shift regularly at Kraft, probably a little more quickly than at some other firms. With those shifts, you can have a change in management or co-workers. The regular change in strategy and peronnel effects people's willingness to change or take on new challenges, especially those who have been with Kraft for many years,

Advice to Senior Management

It is challenging to take a long term vision in this economic environment. Being nimble can feel like a lack of direction and strategy and the two need to be balance each other out.