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Great Lakes Cheese reviews

3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(184 total reviews)

Dan Zagzebski

84% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Great Lakes Cheese has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 184 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Great Lakes Cheese 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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184 reviews
1.0
Aug 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, very easy work.

Cons

Complete lack of visible leadership, very little attention to safety, there is little to no safety culture, employees are not required to wear steel toed safety shoes for example. Scheduling is a joke, I was told at time of my interview that I'd occassionally have to work a saturday here and there, turns out every other saturday is mandatory. There is little to no upper management technical support, some machines there are no schematics, or electrical drawings, other machines have been highly modified by others mechanics and nothing has been documented. There are shifts that will go by that we will go 6 hours without anything to do, there is zero pm planning during the week so we just wait for an issue to come up. Pure firefighting mode.

1.0
Aug 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is decent, benefits are alright

Cons

Everyone that works here seems to be related. They talk about how they treat their employees like family. That's because they ARE family. The trainers talked openly in my face about how they hate training. I was bullied out of this company for no reason other than pure hate from current employees that only want their friends and relatives to work here. Everyone was so rude it was unbelievable. I heard the fat pig that 'runs' line 2 swearing at the new people. The new people on my line were getting cussed out. People throwing things. The interview process went great and I was so excited to work for this company because of how good they are at deceiving people. The work is NOT hard. The lunchroom is a joke. You get 2-15 minute breaks if you work 8 hours, and 3-15 minute breaks if you work more hours. It doesn't sound like that would be so bad BEFORE you actually have to suffer it. By the time you get undressed from your smock etc, scrub your shoes and get to the break room you have maybe 8 minutes left to sit down for 2 minutes before you have to run back downstairs and put everything back on, then be at your station. It's dreadful. The people in HR have all been there for a year or less it seems and they're terrible with paperwork. There's no reason that anyone should be treated the way they treated me and all the other new people from my hiring group. I really cannot understand why everyone was just SO RUDE and for no reason at all. Let's not forget the bs that the truck drivers have to endure from this company. It was a VERY hostile and abusive environment, I would not recommend it at all. There are plenty of other jobs out there.

1.0
Jul 7, 2021

Run!!!!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stock ownership program Decent pay

Cons

Good old boy company Frat house mentality amongst management Expected to live at work 50-65 hour work weeks Six to seven days a week Supervisors not required to put in same amount of hours as employees Nepotism is worst I have ever seen in ANY company

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