3.0
Nov 9, 2015
Former employee, more than 10 years
Hershey, PA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Lean structure allows associates experiences that would be available to only more senior employees in other organizations; small size means that everyone knows everyone else and has direct access to leaders.
Cons
Dramatic recent culture change. After many years acting like a small(ish) family company, Hershey is evolving into a cold, faceless big company. It used to be more about people but now it's more process/legal/bureaucracy. This is a direct result of senior leaders pushing aside longtime company veterans to make room for execs from other big companies. The recent corporate restructure was handled terribly, eroded morale and led to the departure of invaluable institutional knowledge, some voluntary and some involuntary.