Yum! Brands reviews

The company culture has changed dramatically since I first worked there. This was once one of the best places to work in Louisville and I use to recommend it, during the last years of my employment, it slowly started to gain a body shop feel. Recruiting any talent or hiring interns full time became difficult since no one wanted to work there. The pay and benefits are not great, while not bottom of the barrel bad, you can find the same job (IT jobs) in the Louisville area paying over 20% more with better health insurance. I seen this place lay off very talented young individuals over people who had 5+ year experience who could not do 25% off what laid off person could do.

Yum has some issues with leadership, specifically in 2025 with the organizational changes that are currently underway. The new leadership coming in have changed the company in such a way that it feels like a wildly different company than it was in 2023 and 2024. Many of the employees are currently in a state of confusion and anxiety with the direction of the company because there is no clear path forward, and many are left wondering if their jobs are safe and what their job even is. Teams have been dissolved, restructured, and people are being laid off en masse. Another huge issue at Yum is the direction they take with the tech architecture. The general approach from upper management is "put a bandaid on it" rather than trying to fix problems the right way, even if it might take a little longer. This ends up compounding on itself, creating much bigger problems in the future, and they don't seem to care as long as they feel like the immediate problem has been resolved. I believe this approach is a large part of their current problems with restructuring - they're backtracking and paying the price on bad decisions made in the past. Management wants to be told yes, and don't want to hear, "there's a problem with this solution because of x y z". They also seem to be pushing for a return to office, so if you're looking for a remote position, this may not be the place to go.