Mars reviews

4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(4,399 total reviews)
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Poul Weihrauch

92% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Mars has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,399 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 Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
3.0
May 6, 2015

Sales management

Recommend
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Pros

Strong global brands. Strong industry presence. Engaging associates. Slightly innovative, willing to work with retailers to collaborate, partner, invest in win win outcomes.

Cons

Work life balance is non existent. Heavy work loads and not enough head count to support sales teams. Upper management hires outside consultants to come in and reduce management spans/layers, piling more responsibility on the sales managers. Also only a chosen few will get the opportunity to move to upper management, and the majority of sales managers can only look for lateral moves.

1.0
Apr 18, 2015

A cult with no leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Hard to think about a single one.

Cons

A Management Team with no idea of what leadership means, people talking beyond one's back like in high school, people volunteering to give you a straight feedback but unwilling to take yours, a persistent sense of complacency and that what has worked well until today will work well tomorrow too. A lot of celebrations and silly events for average business results just to pretend that everything's fine and to keep everybody's moral high enough just to hide that things do not move in the proper direction. Lot of office politics, one can advance if there are enough "connections", no matter how good one is, results come second, recommendations and personal preferences come first (so be careful with whom you drink your morning coffee). The 5 principles, hanged on every single wall, are just what they are: nice principles written on a piece of paper, nobody lives them, the more people talks about them (a nice cover to hide a lot of shortcomings), the less they stick to them. Sometimes one can have the impression to have just joined a cult. Pretentious ("how good we are" is a frequent background noise) and ridiculous (they use old systems and processes, working nowadays like major competitors did 15-20 years ago, and still keep on thinking that they are among the best...).

3.0
Nov 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free chocolate! There is a lot of talk about mutuality in the company. The pet care location allows pets in the workplace and the office environment is very open. There are no cubicles.

Cons

Each of the Mars brands operates almost independently---this is sometimes a positive and sometimes a negative. They don't have sick days. You either take it without pay or it it is treated as short-term disability. Pay is competitive, they have a 401K and a matching program. Health insurance isn't as good as some big companies but it isn't bad.

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