PepsiCo reviews

Professional limitations. Past 4 years of annual downsizing has reduced the knowledge pool and minimized the potential for development. Lay-offs appeared to be heavily based on mathmatical formulation of age, service, salary and not so much on underperformers. Promotions at lower levels depends on current location and level with very little regard to current role/responsibilities and accomplishments. Most times promotional opportunities lack support from management and very rarely a courtsey "thanks but no thanks" call from HR. The normal response from management is that PepsiCo doesn't pay for relocation and you cannot advance more than 2 levels above current role. Discouraging that performance doesn't seem to be part of the creditentials. Many internal sabatagours to the numerous "tools" rendering lack of usage, lack of support and very little best in class examples. Heavy demand for internal reporting which limits the time to actually call & support the customer. Challenging collaboration between the individual domestic business units that operator still very much in "silos". BU support very limited and mostly unseen.

Embarrassingly terrible work-life balance, which is the opposite of their work-life balance ethics they brag about during interviews, but it's all a lie. They also offer tuition reimbursement, which sounds good in theory, but they threaten you not to even dare let school interfere with your work and it essentially scares people from utilizing the benefit, which only covers a few classes per year. You're pretty much on-call 24/7 as well. Management expects all stores to be absolutely perfect and don't care what challenges you face day-to-day. You can bust your butt and sell in displays and innovation, but god forbid you don't have max or mist in a store! If this happens, you can expect to be singled out and belittled in front of other managers and peers. The company only seems to lead with negative reinforcement. There is also little room for advancement, as the new direction for the company is by direct-hiring recent college grads and they rarely promote from within, even if you have the same college credentials in addition to years of experience within the company. There's very bad morale, except for one week out of the year when they put on an "employee appreciation week"