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    General Mills Reviews

    Updated November 11, 2018
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    General Mills CEO Jeff Harmening
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    • "Work/life balance dependent on team you are placed in" (in 91 reviews)

    • "1 - Slow Decision making - sometimes" (in 48 reviews)

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    1. "Gel operator"

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      Former Employee - Gel Operator in Saint Louis, MO
      Former Employee - Gel Operator in Saint Louis, MO
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at General Mills full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Loved the work and the people I worked with great team to work with..

      Cons

      The drive for me was almost 2 hours one way.

      Advice to Management

      To try and help your employees more to get a job that helps out there situation. What I mean is like in a transfer of jobs.

    2. "Account Executive"

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      Current Employee - Account Executive in Baton Rouge, LA
      Current Employee - Account Executive in Baton Rouge, LA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at General Mills full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Brand category leader, excellent team, competitive salary and benefits

      Cons

      Sometimes not enough hours in the day!

      Advice to Management

      Keep providing resources and tools for success

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    3. "Good overall employer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Minneapolis, MN
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Minneapolis, MN
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at General Mills full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great pay and room for advancement.

      Cons

      The usual big corporation problems.

    4. "Working in General Mills India"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      fast paced, collaborative atmosphere, great culture

      Cons

      Not so structured, too many ideas are tried out

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Finance Manager"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at General Mills full-time

      Pros

      When I started with the company, they had a great leadership development program. When the function was focused, and staffed, they could accomplish anything.

      Cons

      Serial layoffs removed older employees that had continuity and deep knowledge. Top young talent often left after each round of layoffs driven out by the changing culture.

      Advice to Management

      Be more friendly, get out of the tower you often pull back to, walk around and know your function's employees and their names, make long term decisions not driven by hitting a quarterly number.

    6. "Ok"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at General Mills full-time

      Pros

      Great vacation right away (3 weeks, 4 weeks after 5 years). Maternity/paternity leave has changed for the better as well!

      Cons

      Too few people, too many responsibilities for the ones who are left.

      Advice to Management

      Slow going. Hard to get opportunities for advancement and not great developmental opportunities.

    7. Helpful (1)

      "HR Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chanhassen, MN
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chanhassen, MN

      I have been working at General Mills (More than a year)

      Pros

      People at the company were great to work with.

      Cons

      Need to have Master's degree to advance within company. Company values education over years of experience.

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Great place to work if you have no family"

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      Current Employee - Machine Operator
      Current Employee - Machine Operator
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at General Mills full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great pay
      Lots of benefits
      Work is not difficult or too physical
      Lots of overtime and opportunities to work

      Cons

      No work life balance for regular floor operators. However, upper management positions do have more time off and have more 1st shift positions.
      Lots of 12-hour days due to staffing.
      Very little communication from management as far as your personal performance
      Consistent short notice on work schedule (Sometimes you do not know until a Friday if you have to work the entire weekend, so you cannot really make plans outside of scheduled vacation days)

      Advice to Management

      The people at the top are so busy scrambling around to secure their own jobs that they're neglecting the people who make their job possible--the production workers.

    9. Helpful (1)

      "It's a great company to stay 3-4 years and then leave."

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at General Mills full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Multiple business units to work on, short (less than 2 yrs) rotation on each role, opportunity to work on large and small retail accounts throughout career

      Cons

      Consultant agency type culture, lack of diversity in upper management/leadership, does not utilize external employees well, manager training and development needs work, lack of popular office locations, lack of innovation, PSM process is questionable.

      Advice to Management

      Push to better train your managers so that they can adequately prepare associates and leads to lead teams and develop skills. Bring out more innovation, diversity and open offices in more desirable locations.

    10. Helpful (2)

      "AMM"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at General Mills full-time

      Pros

      Great place to start career; rotations to get breadth of experience and exposure; value of culture / teams as well as process. Potential great place after the dust settles.

      Cons

      Lots of turnover / layoffs happening. Intensity and cliche grew; diversity diminished. Became very difficult to recruit new talent while losing existing talent.

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