PepsiCo Reviews

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

big company, pretty good salary, OK benefits, competitive culture

Cons

little transparency in organizational stuff

Advice to Senior Management

more transparency

Pros

Resources, bright and motivated co workers and excellent trainning particularly in the early part of your career. There is always enerygy in the building.

Cons

Mostly at some point particularly around a global image and a "good for you initiative" it was get on the train and be part of the program. Nothing could slow down some of the packaging efforts especially the Tropicana brand where there was great reservation at many level but not at the top.

Pros

- talented peers and leaders
- fast past environment
- opportunity to take risk and learn
- opportunities for global experience

Cons

- demanding pace
- strong bias to deliver quarterly financial results - causing too much on short term

Advice to Senior Management

Improve balance of focus on core business growth with new markets

Pros

The environment is very relaxed and the company has a great work/life balance. The managers are very involved and look out for their employees.

Cons

The organization is always changing and management gets switched very quickly at times. It makes it a little hard to get evaluated by one person and prove yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to keep changing manager's down to a minimum because it is hard for employees to form a relationship with them.

Pros

Still very prestigious when applying for other jobs. Lots of very smart and very capable individuals. Tremendous product reach and ability to impact millions of consumers everywhere. Because of flexible nature of organization (i.e. not a lot of processes) there is tremendous opportunity to make quick and impactful decisions and take action.

Cons

Strong emphasis on informal networks to solve problems outside of your "day-to-day" work. Prizes itself on being a dynamic and flexible organization with minimal concern for the constant variability and reorgs in the organization. The emphasis on flexibility also shows itself in the lack of processes at HQ - often times ideas will be rehashed because information is only retained by employees. For "most" individuals an MBA will become important to your continued career advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a lot of uncertainty about the success of the U.S. business - we must be decisive in our strategies and invest to implement them for years to come instead of simply over a one year time frame.

Pros

Excellent Benefits!
Consistent work.
Plenty of advancement opportunities.
Great way to get daily exercise.
Develop relations with account managers.
Highest pay for similar jobs I'm aware of.

Cons

Tough, dry, physical and constant work.
Can be rough on your knees and back.
Difficult to get time off.
You will likely work holidays.
Summer is a long, punishing experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure that merchandisers who follow other merchandisers are not having to clean up a mess that was never theirs. Doing this on a daily basis quickly degrades motivation to do a good job.

Pros

Good working environment. Salary levels are fair and very nice for the area. Tons of room for growth and development. All managers at my location have had different roles about every 2 years. Lots of opportunity to get to understand the business

Cons

Working on the production side, and in a very large production facility....work life balance can become difficult at times.

Pros

Free product, opportunity for growth

Cons

Support from management is insufficient

Advice to Senior Management

open to new ideas

Pros

Great organization with respect to training and work environment

Cons

Reorganization replaces experienced people with recent college graduates

Advice to Senior Management

Value people who work hard and give the company years of dedication instead of always looking for recent graduates to hire