Ghirardelli Chocolate reviews

Purely a politically run company, high management turnover! Managers can't perform without support. No support given to new and innovative ideas and or independent thinkers. Open and hostel harassment if one doesn't follow the political agenda. Advancement is based on political agenda as apposed to job performance. Open favoritism to the politically correct. I've never experienced a company that has lost so many great employees to hold on to a culture of elitism. Promote ineffective managers with no practical experience and poor interpersonal skills. Seems like starting over every time. This culture leaves the employees with a sense of failure. Employees communicate their ideas only to find out later their ideas were implemented and recognition given to his or her manager. Speaking out will come at a significant cost! Manufacturing improvement are limited to longer hours of operation as apposed to solid operational improvements. Employees work as robots without management representation, speaking out will cause serious repercussions and negatively affect careers.

It operates under the shadows of Lindt Chocolates which is a much larger and different company. Although the results were measured against Lindt, the investments did not. Goals are pretty aggressive for each of the teams (cause their Lindt counterparts' have even more aggressive goals!) completely overlooking what the company's capabilities, bandwidth, and needs are. Surprisingly, in the last few months of my time there, HR was unreachable too. That's pretty unusual, but I had nowhere to go express my concerns, challenges and problems.