PepsiCo Reviews

Pros

All across the country, decent pay and benefits

Cons

Everything from the top down, leadership is more interested in protecting fiefdoms than in what is best for the business. Outsources way too much at the expense of local ownership and costs.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, take the target off the backs of ex-PAS employees. You need to wake up and see the number of long-term loyal employees you have lost who would have done anything for their company in the past.

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

good pay and comp benfits to other companies

Cons

If you are not is sales or marketing - very little advancement

Pros

Great atmosphere to work in

Cons

Very busy, lots of deadlines

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is great. The company does an excellent job of training new employees in the right career path to be succesful

Pros

PepsiCo is a great company to train with. If you want to get exposed to the business as much as possible, PepsiCo will promote you really fast (once you have proven yourself and exceeded sales results). People who work there are ambitious and great to work with.

Cons

You will do multiple roles at the same time, so you will be working on average 70-75 hours a week. I had to work many weekends when I didn't have to because I was doing multiple roles at the same time. Managers made me feel really guilty if I took time off because I was sick. Company culture is very dry and professional.

Pros

Great learning curve, great brands, looks good on a resume. Lots of smart people who are passionate about what they do.

Cons

Skills are not as important as posturing and perception. Roles don't go to best qualified, but rather to those who "look" best.

Pros

better than nothing in this depression

Cons

no chance of being made permanent

Advice to Senior Management

look into how much you are paying the contracting companies and find out how much they are paying the contractors, At this point it might be cheaper to hire the contractors on as employees.

Pros

Exposure to new ideas, concepts is high, company culture does push for new ideas and is not afraid to take chances. Depending on your department, entrepreneurial, risk taking is possible. Able to work with every top agency, just by picking up the phone.

Cons

Gossipy, great work often goes unrecognized or ignored. Personality driven, at least half the company runs on personality. Upper management does not have great ability as marketers like previous management team, they seem ashamed of selling junk food, overly focused on new, niche categories/products.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize great work in a public manner, give examples of great work and incentiveize people to behave in that manner. Embrace soda and salty snacks as the core business. Today and for the next 25 years.

Pros

Friendship and mentorship. Great place to learn and develop yourself

Cons

Work life balance and some what lack of opportunity.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen and learn from mistake. continue to push out new idea and opp.