Land O'Lakes reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(722 total reviews)
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Beth Ford

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Land O'Lakes has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 722 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Land O'Lakes 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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722 reviews
1.0
Jan 5, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The people I have met at the corporate office all seem to genuinely like working for Land O'Lakes. The benefits are decent, but health care in general in Minnesota isn't great, but that isn't something they can fix with a benefits package.

Cons

On the surface, LOL seems like a great company with competitive pay, and great benefits. It very well may be all those things at another location. I unfortunately had a horrible experience from start to finish at the location I worked out of. They started off by giving me a benefits package that included holidays off, only to find out after I was there that they were not given. That pretty much set the tone for the rest of my employment with them. They definitely abused the fact that I was salaried, I had no authority as a manager, and was pretty much run by the HR department. Hands down, LOL has been the most unethical company that I have ever worked for. As a result, the turnover rate for a supervisor position is extremely high. I believe there have been about 26 supervisors in the last 6 years for the 4 supervisor roles. I hoped things would improve with the new leadership in place, however based on the way I was treated after I put in notice, I doubt it will. I had high hopes for LOL since I had heard it was such a great company, but it fell very short. However, I will give the caveat that it could just be the one location, so just do your research.

3.0
Mar 25, 2016

OK

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good office atmosphere, good benefits, good location.

Cons

Senior management shoving diversity down your throat even when your religious beliefs are otherwise in some specific cases.

3.0
Mar 25, 2016

A good company, but very risk-averse and slow to change

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are lots of great people to work with, and lots of opportunities to learn new things.

Cons

There's not much by way of succession planning for career advancement. Standard processes are not shared across departments (if they exist at all), which can lead to misunderstandings and friction between departments. Management is very risk-averse, which can be good in that Land O'Lakes doesn't often bite off more than they can chew, but can be challenging when they aren't willing to take steps toward improvement of their facilities or portfolio when others in the industry are moving faster.

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