PepsiCo reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,235 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 17,235 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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1.0
Sep 18, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Looks great on the resume Good professional learning curve Some good systems, SAP exposure in certain areas Highly driven people

Cons

Highly driven people "PepsiCo Chicago" is treated as a PepsiCo "Chicago". They're not us which is what prompted this review. Take this in a relative stride but you are an acquired company and not core PepsiCo. Your assimilation has been something akin to Germany taking Poland without tanks but not smiling. The realities of working in NY are far more stark; 60hrs wk during down cycles, no work life balance, Summer what?, just no pleasantries. The AOPs are a mess, the massive system integration exhausting and costing too many brand people, the flight of leadership to outside has been covered by the press in Business Week, Ad Age, and the Wall Street Journal thrice times. We are losing mid & upper mgrs in droves and should be. Indra has positioned this company for disaster. "We need more consultants in here", "If the world is a hand and the large nations are the fingers, then the U.S. at times acts as the middle finger towards everyone?" We have lost all of those brand seasoned guys and replaced them with ibankers and consultants. Bad ethic. Poor Chicago's brands have been pummeled by her direction, what was she thinking with the Tropicana and Gatorade branding this year??? You just can't repair that kind of share loss. The turnover is huge and the questions that perspective replacement candidates ask are difficult to answer pretending we're still a leader in the industry anymore. No one is following where we're leading. We already hit the iceberg and the people leaving know what's happened.

2.0
Sep 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The best reasons for working at Frito Lay are that you can make $40,000 + a year to start with only a high school diploma. They also have good health insurance.

Cons

The biggest complaint that I had was that fact that they recently cut our pay and benefits while they increased our work loads. On Monday I had 14 stops that I had to make. There were 2 Supermarkets that took 1 & 1/2 hours each to service. Then I had 12 convenience stores to service at an average of 45 minute per store. Add in travel time between stops, and paperwork at the end of the day and you can get and idea of what you are looking at in regards to the time you need to spend running a route. I would start work at 4:30 AM and not get finished till 6:00 PM. There is no time for extra curicular activities or family life. The company also decided to save money by cutting out weekend merchandisers, and began making most of us work split work weeks. They talk a lot about your "REWARDS" which is a reference to your benefits package and retirement. There is an opportunity to make good money, and it will be easy to bank most of it, since you will have very little free time to spend any of it. In addition to the 60 hour weeks which you will be working, there will be meetings which you will be required to attend. This usually means that you have to quit working your route early that day, and finish up the stops you missed the next day - so now instead of doing 14 stops you will have 16 stops to do. Finally, managers are often recruited off the street without having any route sales experience. And although the drivers are called a Route Sales Representative, you will do almost no selling. All corprorate selling is done through a key account manager.

1.0
Jun 28, 2021

Bogus and Horrible

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Reviewing for GBS only* - gifts of branded products - meeting with so called tier 1 college people - so feel good factor - good office building - food allowance when Office was open and free snacks and branded products (nothing now though)

Cons

- Hiring in bulk and in junk - no understanding in CPG domain among peers or even in most of the leaderships as most people are coming from technology or process backgrounds even if from CPG companies - GBS is not CPG COMPANY it is merely a shared service - so full of mediocrity, no learning of business, and just boot licking of stakeholders and other GBS towers in countries. - copy pasting work and data entry operations are the only jobs here but they give very good names to such work so that you are fully confused .... - HR in Hyderabad is fully incapable, unethical and non-cooperative. Before hiring they promise you something and after that they don't even respond to you, even in the job if you are in problem, other countries HR comes to your help nit your own HR. - No live training on FMCG fundamental business for Analysts from Indian leaders even if there are some BIG INSTITUTION Guys and from FMCG business - so simply they don't want to give you learning, just the day to day data entry ***** jobs. If you are having already rich background of FMCG you are saved but silent. - too much of layers or hierarchies so NOT at all FLAT ORGANIZATION. Here designations what they provide are fake as in the organisation across countries your internal designation is three levels down. Associate Director actually becomes Senior Manager after joining, and Deputy Director is Manager, Executive manager is Associate Manager, Senior Manager is Senior Analyst, Manager is Analyst (am I serious??) ...yes unfortunately.

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