Great people, rocky strategy, consistent layoffs - R&D Scientist General Mills Employee Review

- Large layoffs seemingly every other year made people feel like they were constantly walking on eggshells. - Odd title/pay/(non-)exempt disparities between scientist and technician/technologist roles due to changing degree requirements over time. Scientists with a fresh BS were a higher level (and potentially pay) than a technologist with the same degree and a decade of experience. People with food science degrees often felt a bit out of place because so many chemical engineers were recruited (and paid more). - Difficulty innovating and working quickly in a competitive market. - Annual rotations of AMMs made for highly variable strategy and repetition of previous work. - Inexperienced managers + managers who were great scientists/engineers but poor (and/or poorly trained) managers of people. - Inconsistent onboarding and training experiences across teams, especially considering how large the company was (in that they were constantly onboarding new early-career scientists).