Hostess Brands Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time

Pros – Good working conditions, Fair employee practices

Cons – No advancement company continnued stuggling

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

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than a year

Pros – Hostess has some great products to work with

Cons – Limited money to invest back into the company

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

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Hostess had an iconic product still in demand.

Cons – Management failed in so many ways with Hostess, and not just with respect to union contracts. You can't continue to operate the same way you have for 100 years and expect to compete.

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

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than a year

Pros – The pay and benefits were great

Cons – The company closed their doors.

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

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – good pay but over the years continue to decline

Cons – poor management out dated equipment and out dated computer system

Advice to Senior Management – stop taking money off the top, improve equipment, listen to sale force

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

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Before they bought Wonder in the 90's IBC was a GREAT place to work.

Cons – The Company Liquidated in 2012

Advice to Senior Management – Upper Management should have listened to the employees in the field.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – competetive salary, easy work schedule

Cons – worn equipment, reduced base pay

Advice to Senior Management – new equipment, reinstate base pay

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good people to work with. I enjoyed my position as the Computer Room Accounting Clerk that was responsible for the daily bake at our Billings Sweetheart Plant. My work entailed data entry of orders from the retail stores, routes, and sales personnel daily, printing of computer reports of last nights activity, ordering product from our Sister plants and outside vendors, and printing & distribution to production the load & trailer sheets for the product to be produced that day.
Enjoyable local management personnel.

Cons – Very high paced position with lots of time management constraints. Some last minute changes may throw the bake off schedule. Loss of employees when Hostess Brands started to show signs that the company would liquidate.

Advice to Senior Management – I wish the upper management could have kept this business afloat and made the necessary monetary concessions to do so. I wish the upper management had kept their promises of improving the infrastructure of the company's plants and had been truthful in their communication with the unions. There was too much money paid to the upper management that stayed through the liquidation that could have been used to save the company in a more productive way.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Iconic Brands,Great Benefits and good pay

Cons – Terrible business plan, Had gone thru 2 bankrupcies and 4 CEOs in 7years

Advice to Senior Management – Replace old and outdated equipment (Delivery trucks,bread racks etc)Hold District managers accountable

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

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – if you work hard it can be very good pay, i made 75k in 2012 early hours my avg. was 2am - 1pm but i enjoyed being home early. also i had a good supv

Cons – some may not like the hours and if you got a bad supv. it could be difficult

Advice to Senior Management – lack of quality and experience in upper mgmt. killed the business

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