PepsiCo Reviews

Pros

Fast paced environment, lots of challenges at work and independence to employees.

Cons

Some employees are often overworked.

Pros

- Work/Life balance is good
- Salary/Benefits are good
- Corporate offices are in a good location
- Company is in good shape financially

Cons

- Very hard to have a career. Career paths aren't well defined.
- HUGE duplication of efforts with little to no coordination among teams
- HUGE gulf between business and IT

Advice to Senior Management

"IT aligning with Business" is just a buzz word at Pepsico. No one in the business likes working with the IT group - it takes twice as long and costs twice as much to engage with IT than hire outside groups.

Pros

The chance to be your own boss.

Cons

Fast pace can lead to unbalance lifestyle.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work!

Pros

Brand portfolio
Good benefits
Beautiful HQ campus

Cons

Zero work/life balance
New structure following bottler acquisition painful...Pepsi North America culture now gone
Endless internal deck building vs. customer being the priority
Exhausting analysis expectations that are "overcooked"
Top heavy

Advice to Senior Management

Allow sales team to focus on our customers vs. endless internal meetings/presentations
Be mindful of the talent leaving in droves...should signal serious concern
Performance w/Purpose feels like lot of rhetoric vs. truly valuing employees

Pros

RIght out of college, you get branded on your resume by a big name company. Pepsi is at the top of the beverage world, so you learn a lot about it. Pepsico also owns several other brand leaders, so cross company movement is an option.

Cons

You are never off. You are issued a cell phone that must be on 24hours. Instead of fixing problems, you are coached to just put fires out. So, you constantly are dealing with the same problem. There is little to no work/life balance. This is a Top-Down problem. Part of the PepsiCo culture. Most departments are under staffed.

Advice to Senior Management

Staffing is a problem. Most departments are under staffed. I understand a lean management style, but there are limits. You will be able to retain top recuits by fixing this problem.

Pros

Large company, some opportunity within company if you know where to look, good people on the bottom level, a few managers actually know what they are doing.

Cons

To many sites are still ruled under the good ol boys system, its not what you know rather who you know, upper management is incompetent and unable to make clear decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Practice what you preach, listen to your employees rather than choose what you think is in their best interest. Learn from times of old and remember the employees are what run the company, not you.

Pros

Pepsico is good company to work with.

Cons

Long working hours is one area

Advice to Senior Management

Need to omprove on worklife balance

Pros

Good Brands. Company looks great on resume. I worked with some great people

Cons

Always in re-org mode. Either prepping for re-org, undergoing reorg, or just post re-org. Rules/practices were not consistent.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out the right org structure and let people operate under it, rather than always changing things.

Pros

With more than 300000 employees worldwide, diversity and inclusion is not just a mith. Every corner you look at within the company is packed with a variety of backgrounds, cultures and languages.

Cons

Althougth there are job opportunities in every professional area you may think of, the corporation is a place to be mostly to growth an outstanding business (marketing, finance, sales, operations) career.

Pros

Flexible scheduling, good pay, and great brand image. You have limited supervision, get to stay active and meet a lot of people.

Cons

You have to use your own car a lot to get from location to location and they do not pay for gas.

Advice to Senior Management

Either get more company cars or pay for the gas your employees use. Coke reimburses their employees for gas FYI