McCain Foods Reviews

Pros

Excellent opportunities
Open-door policy
Ability to be able to interact with senior level management
Great multinational company to work for

Cons

Perhaps there's not much opportunity for advancement
A lot of business is outsourced
quite low salaries
Better communication with subsidiaries in other countries needed

Advice to Senior Management

Need more opportunity for advancement
A lot of business is outsourced
Increase salaries
Better communication with subsidiaries in other countries needed

Pros

medical insurance
work schedule: 12 hour shifts
McCain's future growth
no department seniority
advancement or upgrades
overtime available
decent wages

Cons

There's no restraints on Supervisors
No handbook for company policies, rules
Work: extreme cold no heaters 12 hrs
Work weekends

Advice to Senior Management

Behavior to employee's has lead to an unhealthy, unhappy workplace. Employee's have questions to help with conditions they have endured.

Pros

Excellent compensation package
Good work/life balance

Cons

Horrible systems and processes
No vision
Full of silos and competing departments

Advice to Senior Management

McCain offers an excellent overall compensation package, but the company is absolutely crippled by a lack of vision and the resulting competition among departments/divisons/offices. Job satisfaction is extremely hard to come by. The company has horrible systems for a $6 billion operation. They are implementing SAP, which in theory would help, but will not with fundamental organizational problems that run so deep.

Pros

-Excellent pay and benefits
-Good communication from top leadership
-Excellent safety and corporate responsibility focus

Cons

-Horrible systems and processes
-Little to no focus on developing/promoting internal staff
-Very slow to make and implement change

Advice to Senior Management

1) You have talent internally. Take a chance, take advantage of it, and quit looking outside for everything.
2) Your computer systems are absolutely horrible. SAP should help; take it seriously and implement it to its fullest..
3) Keep at the "pros" listed above - by doing so you will continue to attract talent to the organization that hopefully you can utilize and develop so that it doesn't leave.

Pros

Good food company to work in

Cons

long way to the head office form anywhere

Advice to Senior Management

sound

Pros

- entrepreneurial atmosphere
- work life balance
- ownership over responsibilities

Cons

- lack of process in some areas
- poor systems

Advice to Senior Management

Challenge current business model, systems, and processes. McCain Foods has many great things going for it and a great place to work.

Pros

Ethical. Strong leadership. Many jobs start in rural locations but can blossom into international careers. A solid industry to work in during tough times.

Cons

Mostly rural locations. More of a mature industry which doesn't bring a lot of vibrancy to a career, but then again it brings stability.

Advice to Senior Management

Value creativity and drive over credentials. Keep up the strong focus on communications and transperancy. Further develop team based approach to work.

Pros

Good performance feedback mechanisms in place;
Excellent leadership;
Family run business run by down-to-earth people who enjoy good food / good life

Cons

Unclear succession planning causes good people to leave the company when they really don't want to. There is a tendancy to move too slowly in the implementation of change (too concerned about what the employees will think and do about it). Also, there tends to be too much tolerance for incompetent employees who really aren't pulling their weight.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing!

Pros

Excellent benefits and pay
Great products
Global company with great jobs all over the world

Cons

Globalization has created outsourcing of all Finance to HP INDIA
This may improve over time but it is a con currently

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the companies portfolio of products and differentiate them
Innovate the -product lineup-

Pros

Gain experience and feel rewarding on work. Co-workers are very nice and helpful. Also a very encouraging working place.

Cons

The location is kind of not convenient, it is difficult to access shopping and off work relax activities. If it is possible, they should create more convenience to the employee for the living

Advice to Senior Management

Hope they are doing better and better,