PepsiCo Reviews

Pros

opportunities to learn a lot, and enhance your skills.

Cons

the salary and work life balance leave a little bit to be desired.

Pros

Innovative, fast paced, work with intelligent people, ability to move up very fast if you perform and deliver results, fun place to work

Cons

Long hours
Pay lags if you are a hipo and promote fast

Advice to Senior Management

Consider giving equities to hipos who promote fast, they're your best performers and make the lowest salaries.

Pros

Solid fortune 50 company with an excellent portfolio of established brands. Leveragable scale which contributes to sales success and employee benefits.

Cons

Always searching for a new and improved structure. Heavy reliance on outside consultants who don't completely understand what they are passing judgement on.

Advice to Senior Management

PepsiCo is a large company with multiple billion dollar brands. The ability to establish ourselves as the industry leader will only come through investment. Stop cutting and start spending.

Pros

Management tries to imporve work life balance. They are trying to make things better from a work perspective. Flexable work schedule

Cons

Managers need more leadership training. Management is very controling. Promotions are based on tenure and not on education and smarts.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide ledership training for your senior management. Help them to improve their people skills. Get rid of ruthless managers. Hire more smart people.

Pros

Fabulous people and strong brands

Cons

Lack of faith in the PepsiCo professionals has led to a systemic problem of hiring various consultants to "fix" obvious problems. Power of One is a struggle as all Divisions act as separate businesses!

Advice to Senior Management

Show some faith to the folks to your employees

Pros

Continuous improvement
Setting higher challenges every year
Good chances of advancement
Good salary
Competent management with international experience

Cons

Somewhat biased towards Arabs. People of other ethnicities may find themselves isolated and disregarded.
Slow in taking decisions.
It is very difficult to transition to other positions in Pepsico international elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Work towards building career paths for staff including transition to other PepsiCo affiliates.
Build an inclusive environment so that non-arabs may not feel themselves excluded.

Pros

Respect from managers and peers along with some great compensation

Cons

Some times we have to work long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Help employee's to balance work life balance and look to the industry to see the level of staffing at other a like CPGs

Pros

Great culture and ample resources

Cons

very strict deadlines, bad HR department

Advice to Senior Management

Some advice I would give the leadership would be to improve their HR department, trying to fill out necessary paperwork for the job was very challenging

Pros

PepsiCo has a fantastic culture. The company cares about its employees and cares about giving back to the community. On top of that, they are a savvy business organization with fantastic upper-level leadership.

Cons

The salary is usually at a 70% rate- in that it's better than 70% of comparable jobs but worse than the top 30% salaries.

Advice to Senior Management

Make more of an investment in training your entry level Business Information Solutions associates. The interns were wonderfully treated, but the new full timers were shortchanged.

Pros

Great company with a strong vision. Focus on service and work-life balance. Better than average compensation. Lots of opportunities for advancement.

Cons

High expectations and strong competition for promotions - survival of the fittest mentality. Sometimes senior leadership out of touch. Training can be insufficient - trial by fire.