Land O'Lakes Reviews

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Still working to modernize company and business

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Opportunities to elevate strategic approach at middle management levels.

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New culture is taking a while to sink in with management

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Lack of long term reinvestment

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Falling over itself to be hip, happening, and WOW to lure millennials.
Forgetting the bedrock was built by farmers who worked in the dirt, milked cows at 4am, and people working in dirty, dangerous feed mills and dairy plants.
Very little promotion from within.
10 years 'behind' the curve and now trying to offshore IT -- when everyone else is reversing that.
A culture of 'consensus' where every decision has to be ruminated before being executed, combined with a culture of zero accountability where even people who make egregious, expensive mistakes still receive variable comp and praise.

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Does not value long term employees

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The management only cares about money. Executive leadership is on a mission to reduce costs at all costs. There is absolutely no communication down the chain. Work is silo'd to the extreme to the point of constant bickering between groups. Management routinely lies to employees. Inefficiencies are everywhere and they are accepted. Case in point; they do not keep stock of spare equipment. Everything must be ordered. If a users computer dies, too bad. It is not uncommon to wait a week or two before receiving a replacement. Company acquisitions and mergers are shotgunned with little to no planning involved.

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Slow to move in progressive change, currently in a budget conscious and cost cutting mindset, some teams can be cliquey/difficult to get into, doesn't always communicate or roll out changes in the most effective or smooth manner, takes a long time to move to internal positions- not always clear pathways for growth.

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Constant turnover in upper management. No set standards. No control over training, schedule, workforce schedule.

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Pension is on the rocks. Runs around the clock, so 3rd shift for years.