PepsiCo reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,227 total reviews)
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Ramon Laguarta

80% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

PepsiCo has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 17,227 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PepsiCo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Dec 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Gifts 2. Decent WLB 3. Decent quality of work 4. You get more work if you're competent and you get growth accordingly 5. International Travel

Cons

1. PepsiCo Hyd is a GBS office, it's like a capability center where they have outsourced work from different BUs of PepsiCo and made it like CoE. This is where India is leading so it's perfect, but the leaders who have been appointed are from BPOs, they don't know what they are doing, and they have no idea how PepsiCo corporate culture is. You would feel from Day1 that your peers are really awesome but your leaders are full of crap. 2. Office space is good, but the food is so bad, they should see the perks which are being provided by their competitors such as HUL, AB InBev. They pressurize people to come to the office but don't have decent office space to accommodate those people. 3. If you know how to sing and dance and do all sort of non value add work, you can get promoted immediately, i have seen people joined with me with no idea of how to get work done, get promoted just because he/she can dance and play guitar. 4. There is a lot of disconnect between the stakeholders from BUs who are outsourcing the work to GBS and the local managers, they are never in sync and I mean how would they, managers here spend more time doing events, dancing, having parties and fun. 5. Compensation and Benefits are a scam, no pay parity here, no parity in designations and experience as well. They can hire anyone and make them a Deputy Director even if the person doesnt have any valid experience. They hired like fools. Even the designation are a scam, i'm manager in paper but internally, i'm an analyst.

1.0
Apr 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Pay is fair considering the work you'll be allocated. 2. Nice gesture to send gifts & brand products to employees during festivals. 3. Involvement of your family during various events and get togethers.

Cons

If you are reading this review before your joining, you still have time to reconsider but if you are reading post-joining, I empathize with your pain, wish you luck and courage and I'm sure you'll overcome it eventually. There are lot to talk about so please be enduring and read through this entire article. 1. Quality of Work - If you join HBS Salesforce unit, you'll only work on sheets (they name this critical experiences) and presentations (they name this governance). Not any real technical works even in your wildest of imaginations. 2. Team Composition - Your team will be full of leads with no prior technical experience so they only know how to micro-manage and frustrate. Lack of quality is conspicuous. 3. Future Growth - You'll be given bouquet of promises before you join, like variety and challenging work, future growth and many many more. Let me warn you that all these are promises that are meant to be broken so don't fall for it. 4. Discrimination - They are not an equal opportunity employer. You'll be discriminated at almost every step of your work life. 5. Nepotism - Most of the recruitment and promotions are based on nepotism. If you know someone...who knows someone.. you'll do just fine. If not they you'll see the flipside and believe me, it won't be pleasant. 6. HR - Almost non-existent and weak to handle any real people issues. They are there just to host fireside chats or unit events and also non-ethical ways of working. 7. Leadership - Too busy to tackle their own aspirations and doesn't care about employees. Honesty being told, most of them doesn't deserve their role and got through via nepotism, so you guess the rest. 8. Work-life balance - Just forget it..okay.. It's over 12 hours of hard work including graveyard shifts and possible weekends too. 9. Processes & Work culture - Processes are wrapped with the Red-tape of bureaucracy and unnecessarily long and complicated. But if you know someone...who knows someone..you can easily cut corners and get through with ease. 10. Stability - You'll see re-orgs, changes in leadership almost every couple of months which goes to depict the fact of lack of trustworthiness among the HBS leaders. 11. Respect - HBS is just a back office intended to work as a cost efficiency location because of the cheap labor availability. So you'll be never treated like a real PepsiCo employee. 12. Ownership - Even though it's one of the core goal, most of them doesn't even understand the meaning of this. "Pass the ball and safeguard yourself" is the norm here. 13. Attrition - Good resources who end up here unknowingly started to move out and many more to come. So Don't be fooled by the low attrition rate because the avalanche is getting triggered

1.0
Dec 11, 2018

CEO, All Management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friends made during 10 years of employment

Cons

Always in fear of losing job

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