PepsiCo Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

A lot of hours, great check every week, and not too many people over your shoulders.

Cons

They sometimes can pair you up with a.hole drivers.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing

Pros

Good pay for little work

Cons

True dog eat dog corporate world

Advice to Senior Management

Don't reward the low performers, challenge employees to be better

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

Ability to work from home depending on responsibilities. Employees prior to 2011 eligible for pension. Location is easily accessible via major highways. Close to retail and restaurants.

Cons

Forced to work with onshore/offshore model. Takes 10-12 onshore/offshore to do same volume of work as one top American. Quality of work is far lower than it once was and cost is greatly increased because of coordination overhead. Organization has gone overboard on internal processes which has rapidly increased overall cost of projects. Organization is top heavy with too many thinkers and not enough quality doers.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire trustworthy, quality Americans and drastically cut processes/oversight so that projects can be delivered to business units with higher quality & lower cost. This would also prevent subject matter knowledge loss that is currently happening making subsequent projects more costly in the research area.

Pros

Flexible work schedule
Company helps develop employees

Cons

Promotions and internal positions are filled based on who you know and not who is the best qualified.

Pros

Challenging work and great people

Cons

Ever-changing environment, always learning, growing and moving forward which is great for me but maybe not for others.

Pros

the good thing about it, is getting the company/brand name. training? not really, as a senior guy myself, i would ask real tough questions in the training (lead by another team). but it seemed that they want to save those topics/questions just to themselves. the trainings are just for "show" for their mid-year and year-end reviews (for salary increase/promotions). but if you're someone who craves for training, there's a lot of training in the company.

Cons

way too much politics, a** kissing and favoritism. very low pay grade even for senior technical people. you can get the same amount of money, if not, more from outside/other IT companies for the same skill set and experience. east coast people are friendlier, here they're snubbish and dont even say "hi". and management? they only care about themselves as they rotate every 18 months, so forget about promotion. if you want to be promoted, you need to kiss some major a**.

Advice to Senior Management

need i say more?

Pros

Good vision. Excellent corporate and social responsibility.

Cons

Too many layers of management.

Advice to Senior Management

No advise.

Pros

PepsiCo is a great place to work! The thing that makes it different than other companies is the PEOPLE.

Very innovation driven and fast paced environment.

The brands are well recognized and everyone has a connection to them. When at holiday parties and the subject of work comes up, people light up when you tell them who you work for because they are typically such a fan of one of the company's many products. They immediately know the company you work for. I have worked in the past for companies where it takes a few minutes to explain who you work for. Not fun...

It is very entreprenuerial and sort of like working for a small company in a big corporation.

Cons

Innovation very often leads to change. PepsiCo is constantly adapting to meet the future needs of the business. This tranformation sometimes is foriegn to new people who look for things to always be the same in their job - day after day after day. Change is usually good, but if you are like Milton in the movie "Office Space" and do not welcome or adapt to needed change, then look elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe do a company wide roll out of some change management process. Standard procedures for rolling out change and modifications.

Pros

pay is relatively good. They have a well structured campus development program.

Cons

If you are an engineering, you won't do any engineering work whatsoever

Advice to Senior Management

pay more