Not a good place to work if you are young and passionate ! - Senior CHEMIST Hormel Employee Review

2.0
Oct 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay ! People are nice and friendly ! Good work-life balance ! Job security and stability ! No stress and work is easy !

Cons

I worked at Hormel only for 3 months. The week I started there I started to look for another job ! The company is so conservative, isolated and traditional ! People are old ! The average age of your co-workers is 50-60 ! Very established company...no one encourages or likes changes. The job is routine and very boring. Absolutely no room to learn and grow. The headquarter of the company is located in Austin, MN... literally at the middle of nowhere. I got so depressed after the first month...there is no diversity in the company which I'm sure it's because of the location and culture of the company. So if you are young and want to learn something and move up within a company and passionate about learning and care about your professional development, then don't get a job there ! Don't get fooled by good pay ! You will be miserable there !

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Hormel Response
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Thank you for your comments. We are sorry that you had this impression. During the interview process, we strive to ensure you see the environment that you could be working in. In addition, we value diversity and inclusion in the workplace and have many initiatives in place to continue to advance our efforts in this area.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

friendly people, cross functional collaboration, intense workload

Cons

poor onboarding, lots of turnover between brand managers, difficulty managing internal systems, too much tumultuous change with upper management, condescending manager, bias towards employees that previously interned vs. those that didn’t

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