Pros
-There are some truly amazing people at Kraft Heinz who work hard and are friendly. Sadly they usually don’t seem to stick around since they don’t want to stay in such an unhappy, negative workplace. Most people are stressed and just trying to make it one year before leaving. You can browse LinkedIn and see for yourself how lots of people who work at Kraft only last a little over a year. -Kraft has great name recognition and used to treat its employees well (just look at the glowing Kraft reviews on Glassdoor from before the Kraft Heinz merger!) so when I told people I worked at Kraft they were impressed, unless they knew how 3G companies run and then they would always ask me how I was handling the stress. -When I decided to leave Kraft, their growing reputation as a stressful, unhappy place to work meant it was easy to explain why I was looking for a new job.
Cons
When Kraft Heinz offered me a job they promised big, exciting, and difficult projects, motivated team members, and professional growth. Within weeks I realized everything they promised either had a dark underbelly or was a flat out lie. -It feels like the biggest reason they have lots of opportunities for growth is that every few months they lay off a big group of people. This creates a tense environment because you’ll routinely see people pushed out. Even high performers can be laid off if they had the bad luck of being on a team Kraft no longer needs, unless they’re offered a transfer onto a team they have no interest in joining, maybe even in a totally different field. -The Kraft Heinz recruiter convinced me to take a lower salary than I planned on accepting because she bragged how the bonus structure is amazing since we’re all owners here! It wasn’t until I started that I heard you only get the full bonus if you hit all your targets and also the company does well enough to approve paying out 100% of employees’ earned bonuses. I also heard later that recruiters’ bonuses depend in large part on filling roles really quickly, but not how long you actually stay at Kraft. This means it is really tempting for them to promise anything to get you accept, even if it’s an exaggeration and there’s a chance you’ll want to leave Kraft upon learning the truth. -No matter why you leave Kraft, you can almost never be rehired again. They don’t care if you’re quitting because of a family move, a personal tragedy, or an amazing new job opening up elsewhere. They believe loyalty to Kraft is the most important thing so you should never have to leave. I see this as a sign of how they view employees’ personal lives. -Kraft asks a lot from its employees and promises meritocracy in return. It is a lot like a big 10 school, really rah-rah, and it feels like a lot of employees come from work hard, party hard schools. But since the best opportunities seem to go to Brazilians first, then men and there are constant layoffs, people get discouraged fast.