What A Mess - Operations Analyst Ocean Spray Employee Review

2.0
Apr 22, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the HQ building is renovated and beautiful, beautiful grounds to match. Good benefits - 401k match, FSA, family leave, medical/dental/vision (20/20 On Site bus), on site gym/fitness classes. On-site cafeteria. Most colleagues are good people and hard workers. Flexible work schedules/work from home/work life balance.

Cons

Revolving door of leadership - interim CEO left (after a month maybe?), making it the third CEO now in two years who has departed for one reason or another. Also on the third CFO in two years. Career opportunities are completely dependent on the department you're in. The amount of institutional knowledge that has walked out the door over the past two years, voluntarily or involuntarily, is immeasurable. IT and Finance outsourced and senior leadership is either clueless and/or lacks candor when they say during town halls that the transition is going great or that there are only a few hiccups. Obviously the plan wasn't thought through well enough because people are still around after being told they were being laid off 9 months ago, hard to imagine there is any financial benefit being realized for all the cuts. Talk to employees doing the work and dealing with IT day in and day out and they will tell you otherwise. Expect to be asked how to resolve your own IT issues because the outsourced team has no idea, and the outsourcing and cuts went so deep there is nobody physically around to help out with emergent issues when needed. Finance is bare bones, a ghost town due to the layoffs/outsourcing. Even the few retained employees are leaving and running for the hills now. Who is left to do the work and make decisions? The building is noticeably vacant . When employees question future plans for the building, they are met with snickers or vague responses. It's somewhat depressing to come in and see all the empty desks and darkness. Senior management and the board seem oblivious, or maybe willfully ignorant, to how the culture and environment has changed. What was once an amazing place to work now feels uncomfortable, and colleagues feel unappreciated, overworked and undervalued.

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5.0
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Pros

* Strong collaboration between IT, product, and business stakeholders * Leadership is open to structured product management practices and roadmap discipline * Opportunity to influence process maturity and product strategy * Fast-moving environment that allows ownership and visible impact

Cons

* Governance and prioritization frameworks are still evolving * Occasional shifts in priorities due to changing business demands * Cross-functional alignment can depend heavily on individual relationships rather than standardized processes * Documentation and long-term product strategy could be more formalized

2.0
Jul 12, 2026
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Pros

My team was great to work with.

Cons

Unorganized, production and other staff ruin the schedule to cause issues for others. No help is given when asked

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