The Hershey Company reviews

I read reviews and didn't listen to the advice, but here I am giving it out myself..I went on the field day and thought I could handle this job for "18-24" months...really think this through if you are considering working as an RSR: you are basically a walmart employee. You are valued for your labor and not your insights. Hershey prides itself on being insights-driven, but when you get to the stores, the store managers could care less. After working this job 1 year out of college, I felt dumber. You get treated pretty badly in stores, with stores threatening to kick you out. It's hard to maintain a good relationship with stores and fulfill Hershey's priorities. I didn't go to a top tier university to spend my days building pallets in walmart. On top of that you are by yourself all day long. You see your manager maybe once a month and the only communication with your teammates is through email and phone calls. Coming out of a collaborative college environment, this is very difficult. Not to mention, Hershey will move you out where you don't know anyone, so it feels like you have no support system. You work 55 hours a week, so good luck making friends and maintaining relationships outside of work. And if you do make friends and get comfortable, to get promoted, you have to move. Promotions are very political--all about who you know. If you get stuck with a bad sales manager, good luck getting that promotion. And if you do get promoted, you'll be spending your days in convenience stores and spending your nights in hotels, so not much of an upgrade. If I had known all of this before taking the position, I would have reconsidered.

Was hired as a sales rep and I do more merchandising than selling. Everything is sold in at headquarter level. There is so much sold in that you won't have a chance to sell. You have to deal with ignorant store managers that don't want anything to do with you. Your job is to get all candy that is sent in out of the back room and on to the sales floor. Seems easy right? it's not. Everyday you will fight with store managers to obtain display space so you can HELP them clean up their backrooms. At the same time you are working next to all these vendors making $10 an hour, yet you are supposed to feel professional. Did I mention all the Hershey reps need a bachelors degree? You are sweaty, you work in walmarts, and there is no brain work required. All the account mangers can't keep up with their jobs so they are always messing up on information making you look stupid in stores with pricing errors and relative information. They each have their own agenda and think you are their slaves when in their accounts, forgetting that you only have an hour in each store. Now for what you do at home! After working 9 hours in the field you come home to doing an average of 1.5 hours of emails and paper work. If you are trying to get promoted you are probably doing 3 hours. They send you so many boxes of coupons, (which you have no clue what account they are for due to lack of communication), so they end up sitting in your house till they expire. They send tons of huge displays that take up half of your garage. Your car is filled to the brim with displays so you look like a pack rat while driving. you need interenet to work but they don't pay for it, you need a cell to work but don't contribute to that. They used to let you have free candy but they took that away. If you are lucky you won't have a micromanager. Everyday I feel that I am behind, yet I'm a very hard worker. One of the top 10% in the company. You will always have Hershey on your mind when sleeping, on weekends, and on vacation. If they did not pay so well out of college, I would have been gone a long time ago. As far as promotions go....Management plays favorites.