Senior management needs to spend more time learning the flavor business - from the excellent teams already there. - Regulatory Specialist Cargill Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, work environment is flexible. The people I worked with make the work less work-like. Opportunities for training and off-site seminars was reasonable (at least 1X a year). Mostly, I liked the people on my team, my manager and those with whom I worked. I always got appropriate support from all of them. A great place to start, and if you want to relocate every 3 years at less than median pay, a great place to stay.

Cons

IT was a myth - opening a PDF file generally took 4 mins since IT did not want to invest in faster processors. Senior management (my manager's manager and up) came from different Cargill businesses and generally took no time to learn this business. If we tried to tell them 'that idea was put in place last year and failed miserably, here's what we did with great success instead.....', we would be marked as "not a team player" and excluded from all future project meetings. Until the project failed, then we unpopular types were called in to clean up the mess and re-do the project, often times using the same template process we mentioned as an earlier success model.

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Pay is good, especially on holidays! you get days off during the week and you work every other weekend

Cons

The schedule is hard, 12 hour days for 1 month then 12 hour nights then switch back. the environment is tough, the work load is heavy. not always the support you need to help you. favoritism, Management can be difficult, sink or swim type of culture, The testing is nearly impossible to get through. In the end you can do a great job in learning the job, if they don't want you, you will be replaced!

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