Indianapolis Fruit Company Reviews

Pros

Pay and bonuses can be nice but are used as golden handcuffs. They call it a carrot while they are using it as a stick. Some fantastic and talented people work here, but are sadly under appreciated.

Cons

Inexperienced family members are constantly being hire or promoted into positions they have little to no experience with. Meanwhile industry vets have been sidelined, are given no respect, and are treated as though their opinions don’t matter. Owners and upper management have insulated themselves with yes men, so anyone that dares to question a decision is berated. Then when it ultimately fails they blame the staff instead of examining whether they overlooked existing issues. You can see the inexperience in their merchandising materials, which frequently promote suggestions that someone with 1 year working in a produce department can tell you is a horrible idea. Indy fruit used to be all about carrying the best product, but that is out the window. They now expect you to make full margin on product they know is compromised, and are pressuring people to not issue credits. Don’t expect more than a 2% raise, as they have created an annual review process that is nearly impossible to go above that. If you do manage to 3% is the cap. If you are within 5 years of retirement you definitely won’t get above 2% as one of their criteria is whether or not they think you can advance with the company. They are frequently making you sign agreements that will allow them to screw you down the road. Do not work here if you want to continue working in the industry. They force you to sign a 2 year non-compete agreement, and actively litigate against former employees regardless of how low they were on the totem pole. COVID response was a joke. They didn’t provide PPE to frontline workers until people threatened to quit. No contact tracing. Quickly moved back to requiring all inside sales and buyers to be back in the office with little to no safety protocols in place. They used this as an opportunity to price gouge customers. Taking advantage of them to help float the other failing business the PE owns. One person whose family came down with COVID and had family members die, and was in the middle of dealing with that, was told they weren’t doing enough... while they were in the middle of talking to a customer! You would never know they are having a major record breaking year based on how they talk to people every day. Constantly beating people down saying they aren’t selling enough, while their accounts are up anywhere from 20%-100%+ for the year. No loyalty to long time customers. While cities were shutting down due to COVID they were regularly going into stores to try and get new customers, even though they didn’t have enough product to supply regular customers who had done business with Indy for 10+ years. So those long time customers would sit without key products for a week, while it was being sent to stores that quickly dropped Indy after product supplies improved. Before the company was purchased by PE the owners would regularly make visits to long time customers. Now those customers are lucky to get a call from upper management. Owners and upper management care about themselves and their bank accounts. While they will talk a good game initially you will quickly come to realize they don’t care about you. No work life balance, especially if you are salary. Upper management has no sense of time it takes to accomplish things, and just say that you aren’t doing enough. If you put in 50-60 hours, but neglected to do one task that doesn’t ultimately matter to customers or anyone else in the company besides upper management, they will tell you that you should have put in more time, or that you’ll need to work on the weekend to get it completed. No acknowledgement of the work you did do, or what you accomplished. Just a focus on the negative.

Pros

Family owned. Very big on employees keeping up with thier health. Great organization skills. Offer great deals to thier curstomers.

Cons

Slow on getting you the help you may need. New management for my area was pretty bad at being a leader. She was always just concerned about herself. Working Sunday's was not pleasant.

Pros

Flexible hours, work till work is finished, never work more than 4 days in a row, management very helpful.

Cons

Working weekends and holidays, sometimes long days but not often.

Pros

Indianapolis Fruit was a great place to work. You get paid weekly

Cons

Indianapolis Fruit can have long hours. The days can be very boring and tiring.

Pros

Free produce and some friendly coworkers.

Cons

Company should invest in some new plumbing...employees having to use outhouses due to broken plumbing every other month is unexcusable. Grossly drab and stale working environment. Endless hours of work expected from salaried employees. Management is mostly family, many of which are inexperienced and have limited leadership and people development skills. Inside sales position is a black hole; you can get in but you can't get out unless you leave the company. Management does not believe in developing their employees and promoting from within. Instead they hire friends and promote family members.

Pros

Easy hire if your have no record

Cons

Unorganized management, poor training,no care for employees,favoritism,unprofessional,random mandatory hours.