Foster Farms reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(432 total reviews)

Jayson Penn

32% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Foster Farms has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 432 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Foster Farms employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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432 reviews
1.0
Apr 2, 2024

Not Worth It

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Pros

Pay is okay, but does not outweigh the cons.

Cons

Working in the Service center is not worth your time, your energy, or your passion. You will be lied to to get you into the door. The oportunity for growth and development are non existent. They cannot keep enough people to fill a full shift let alone let people move up to bigger and better things. You will be treated as the bottom of the barrel, no matter how hard or consistently you work it will never be good enough for corporate metrics. You will not be thanked for putting in extra effort. You will be fighting an uphill battle that you can never hope to keep up with. Training is incomplete at best. At best you will be shown the very basics on how to do things. At worst you are going to be quickly hurried along to take phone calls based on how desperately understaffed they currently are. You will not be given the tools/information you need to perform your job. The repository of information is a scatted mess consisting of outdated scripts, 2 different information repositories that are wholly incomplete and contain scattered information, and a ticketing system that cannot operate for 10 minutes without needing to refresh the whole page. You are going to be thanklessly burned out as soon as you come through the door, to be replaced by the next poor soul that comes to follow in your place.

1.0
Mar 29, 2024

Favoritism for days

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Pros

Loved my everyday tasks. Good company to grow with. Just not in the IT Department. Awesome people in other departments. Just not IT Pay was good compared to other companies in the area offering similar positions

Cons

Heavy favoritism. People slip through the cracks that have 0 IT knowledge/experience. Company will hire anyone as an IT Analyst long as they have a bachelor's degree in something. Even if that degree has nothing to do with IT Engineers in 2nd and third level support not doing their jobs, leaving Analysts to be chewed out by callers. For example, print server for one site was down 2 days, throughout those 2 days I was getting calls from the manager of the site getting yelled at. Called, left voice-mail, email etc. Responsible party was too busy at his family's cabin kayaking on company time instead of working. All types of Servers constantly crashing/going down. The engineers will claim "Our department doesn't work on Servers"............LOL! WHAT DO ENGINEERS DO THEN? Besides spend time at your family's cabin in Tahoe during work hours? Most people in second level support look down on most IT Analysts and treat them like trash Senior IT Analyst at the time I was working there had 0 idea what DNS,DHCP were and what they do(just one example of the type of people who are hired, and then promoted). So how did they get the job as a Senior? Favoritism, that's how Heavy lack of training. Senior IT Analyst barely knew anything about IT (this became more apparent the more questions you would ask), making the 2 weeks training virtually non existent

2.0
Oct 2, 2023

First IT job

Recommend
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Pros

Decent Pay Holiday pay Various shifts Potential work from home opportunity (on occasion)

Cons

Benefits are not that great Understaffed Call volume is pretty overwhelming Not much opportunity to move up Lack luster training High turn-over Factory smells terrible

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