Pros
The opportunity to work with different types of products, temperature grades, environments, packaging formats, substrates, and ingredients. Through this type of interaction you are more able to gain experience in multiple fields and in technologies that make you more attractive to employers in a vast amount of industries inside and outside of processed foods. These opportnities arise everytime you sit down to ideate or go to a plant to examine thier machines and processes. Every trip is a valuable learning opportunity. Another good reason to work for ConAgra is the relationships you build with suppliers that service the company. With the large number of companies we do business with it's easy to network.
Cons
Lack of project focus within and between departments. The is more data entry work than ever before and not enough time to work on the things we were hired to do. This is a far cry from doing the things that matter most, and must do number 6, "Nourish our people...". Everyday I come in at least an hour early to get caught up before the chaos begins. And even then it's impossible to catch up because once the day begins you get calls from every department asking you where is thier paper work for the process you need to start a process. Then there are the days when you have nothing, but back to back meeings from 8 until 5. Then you stay an hour to two hours later trying to finish up that last bit of work to get the large project that you actually want to work on going. By this point you are interrupted by someone from upper management who tells you that you know have another #1 priority to have completed before you go home for that day. By the end of the day you really have not completed much of anything and are now working from home until 10 or 11 at night hoping that the next day will be better. Then the day starts over with cDAT requests, expense reports that are 3 months over due, trial request forms, sustainability report cards, kronos, SAP system spec updates and loads, corrugated bid work and documents, and e-mails and phone calls from people nagging because you are falling behind on your bigger projects. Then you sit there and think to yourself, "This was never like this when I first arrived here, what happened?