ConAgra Foods Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Career opportunities: rotations and training in new areas encouraged but not required if you prefer your area.
Pay/Benefits: The compensation and benefits are good for the area
Flexible work environment: The IT department allows telecommuting one day a week, and has hotel cubes instead of assigned desks so you can move where you sit according to who you are working with. Flexible hours are available to work around things like day care, as long as you work during "core times" you can come into work at 6am or 9am.

Cons – The IT department has been known for having too many irons in the fire. There are plans in place to improve workloads, and it is getting better, but it's still a work in progress.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time

Pros – Good people, decent work/life balance

Cons – No strategy for growth. Flat organization with very little room for promotion.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great work life balance and striving to become a best place to work.

Cons – A lot of restructuring and changing of management. The work life balance largely depends upon your manager. Not all managers share the company's views on work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your managers to have consistency with ConAgra's culture and values.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great CEO with great vision and influence. Lots of great people to work with. Strong internal pride for the company and its brands.

Cons – Lack of trust among some employees. Big corporation with some bureaucracie and time-consuming processes. Hard to recruit and retain talent in headquarter.

Advice to Senior Management – Walk the talk. Keep working on a culture that fosters trust, respect, and self-empowerment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Home town feel. Nice People.

Cons – Low Pay, hard to move up in ranks. Not a lot of internal movement in positions. Hires from outside rather than given opportunities within.

Advice to Senior Management – Better Communication, more meetings. A little out of touch.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time

Pros – Large Budgets, best-in-class technologies, and high-performance DC 2.0 compute platform. Competitive pay.

Cons – Top-heavy corporate structure, understaffed, overworked, hostile and political work environment. Poor performance rating platform. The business side controls every aspect of IT.

Advice to Senior Management – More workers, less management!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than a year

Pros – Worked two years at plant that was shutdown in 2011. Company did superlative job of providing support, training, job hunting support, and severance pay, starting a year in advance of shutdown, for all employees.
It was understood that Conagra wanted to do right by everyone, and did.

Cons – Supervisory work days were initially scheduled 12 hours a day: in a 24 hour environment, but were usually 14+ hours, due to meetings before and after.

Advice to Senior Management – Way too much management turnover at all levels. Half of positions are held long-term, but others turnover frequently, particularly among floor supervisors.
Ability to move within the company is good, and should continue.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ConAgra Foods as an intern for more than a year

Pros – - Friendly place to work
- Good first job to learn about production systems
- Technology was easy to learn about

Cons – - ConAgra utilized a cross-department rotation program for the interns. This could be unhelpful towards career development if placed on a group that didn't require or couldn't utilize interns.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow interns (and full-time employees) to chose from a available list where to rotate to.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ConAgra Foods as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Most interns work in Omaha at the corporate headquarters, but about a dozen or so work at the manufacturing facilities around the nation. I was one of the non-Omaha interns in the summer of 2009. The intern program as a whole is second to none, and dwarfs the Management Trainee program I went into after college for another company. I was flown into Omaha three or four times that summer to participate in intern events, the college world series (which was a blast) and give a presentation to the higher ups.

On a day to day basis I learned how to operate the manufacturing facility, which was a mountain of knowledge necessary to succeed in my field. I was given a couple projects to work on through out the summer as well.

Pay was very competitive. I was able to pay for 2 semesters of school after working that summer.

Can't speak to benefits since I wasn't eligible.

Although my boss could be sort of a dick head, and was always extremely stressed out it was a great experience.

Cons – None that I can speak to. Only worked at ConAgra for 3 months.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ConAgra Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great chances for advancement though my plant and the company as a whole. Great employees to work with and everybody uses a team attitude.

Cons – Management show question leadership as far as ownership of things and holding people accountable of their jobs. Management needs to step up and do the job they are paid for rather than pass the buck.

Advice to Senior Management – From the Plant Manager needs to HOLD his productions Managers accountable to make any changes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend