Mars reviews

4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(4,409 total reviews)
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Poul Weihrauch

91% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Mars has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,409 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Mars employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
3.0
Jan 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Company car (fuel card, insurance, etc) - Good benefits - Great brand exposure/understanding of CPG sales at the retail level - Annual sales meeting is fun, but exhausting - Simple job

Cons

- Micromanaged by leadership (EVERYTHING is tracked) - Extremely repetitive work (not much freedom in creating your schedule, same tasks over and over, etc.) - Dealing with retail management. If you don't have respectful store managers, good luck. A lot of your KPI's are out of your control and your experience relies on your store. - As DOZENS of other people have said, this is a merchandising job - not sales. You are responsible for placing product on the sales floor after consulting with the store (basically asking management who only views you as free manual labor). There is no commission/incentive for producing positive results. - SEASONS: this is the reason why you have this job if you're working with the Walmart channel. You have unrealistic expectations set from leadership to pack out hundreds of heavy cases of candy each holiday season after begging store management for space to place it. Most of the stores' back rooms are a complete mess and a lot of your product is inaccessible. Long days are expected with no additional pay. - Work/life balance: It is frowned upon to work the bare minimum of 40 hours/week. Your stores get backed up while you're on PTO. Overall: an okay role This isn't a bad job by any means, you just need to know what the role entails before taking this job. You need to relocate for any future opportunities within the company.

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Mars Response
5mo
Thank you for taking the time to write your review. We’re sorry to hear your experience with us has not been positive. We aim to support our Associates in every way throughout their time with us and are committed to their wellbeing and development. Please reach out to the independent, confidential team at ombudsman@effem.com, and we look forward to discussing this further.
4.0
Dec 14, 2025

Good Place to Work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive salary, Static Schedule, Progressive employer

Cons

Some management works on buddy system.

3.0
Sep 29, 2025

Hard to move up

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay Great bonus typically Great benefits

Cons

Feels impossible to move up from the factory unless your favored or know someone. They push career progression throughout orientation but is rarely seen past that. Leadership makes good workers feel used. Very high turnover, Starting pay rises faster than raises for current associates Very big disconnect between the factory and office/upper management. They push Safety and quality hard on associates, but bend the rules all the time to push production. Reactive as opposed to proactive in terms of fixing stuff which makes it very stressful on factory workers who have to work around or fix stuff constantly. Recent abrupt schedule change that split up associates, the selection process for who got what allegedly had guidelines, but was very obviously twisted for certain people. There is no work life balance depending on where you go, if your on straight nights you never have energy in work let alone outside of it.

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