PepsiCo Reviews

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great people, good benefits, comfortable working environment, work life balance is there with some positions but not all. It's overall a great place to work!

Cons – Overtime in this role won't exist for very much longer. Can be stressful at times, and they can put alot on your plate on the sales side.

Advice to Senior Management – Human Resources. With the recent takeover from PepsiCo they no longer care to preserve employees who have put in their time if they don't have a college degree. Well, they won't force you out but you shouldn't think too far ahead about moving up. They place too much emphasis on can this person fill the next two steps, instead of the canidate is the absolute best person for the job. With the concern PepsiCo places on hitting sales numbers and cutting costs due to revenue trending down, I think they need to rethink the mindset of HR and Employee Development. Does it make sense to watch overtime and cut location costs, but then turn around and send someone to Pittsburgh for a week to train since they were hired from the outside and need to learn the position? Need to take a better look at the internal canidates more seriously for managment roles. A manager/leader that your frontline employees respect and respnd to, is one that has done everything they have before, and knows the day to day struggles. How can someone effectiely lead a group of individuals when they have never preformed those tasks themselves? Considering leaving the company because of this HR/PepsiCo mindest.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo

Pros – Big company, many opportunities to network, certain departments are very great to work in terms of growth.

Cons – horrible management, poor use/waste of funding, redundant & unnecessary testing performed repeatedly in this dept, repetitive unexpected terminations.no room for growth

Advice to Senior Management – Entire R&D dept is a complete mess. Actually provide effective & proper training for new & current employees so that you can progress as a division. No beneficial research being performed that can actually benefit the company or consumers. No team player/professional etiquette among employees and none of them work as team to get the job done and this is why you are behind on almost all of your projects. Manage time better.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great people working together to find solutions in becoming more innovative and productive.

Cons – Scorecard metrics sometimes take away from the customer focus.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on what is right for the customer, not just the business.

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

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

Pros – Progressive Company that provides a multitude of opportunities for job growth. Learned more in the 10 years that I worked for them than all of the other companies I worked for combined.

Employee compensation and benefits were excellent.

Cons – Stock price and investor relations was more important to them than their employees. Every year the company reorganized and consolidated.

Advice to Senior Management – Align the divisions, instead of cutting jobs. My biggest competitors in the market place were the other divisions in the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Everybody likes the Pepsi Guy!
Relatively easy to get hired if you have a clean background and are persistent.
Benefits, not much more; more cons than pros.

Cons – Long hours, low $/hour since you are paid a fixed amount, not hourly
You have to work through your lunch to get done in time
You are just a human robot
No real room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management – Advice? They won't listen anyway...

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 PepsiCo full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good Pay, solid work. Great people

Cons – 30 bosses in a day. Pepsi takes over your life. Changing management and an end to advancement since the company changed from Pepsi Bottling Group to Pepsi Beverages Company. The hiring from within (front line guys) is basically non existent now. Darnshame I wasted 4 years of my life gaining a bachelors degree.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a look at your front line guys. They're smart, hard working people who know the business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Large company with great brand recognition.

Cons – Large & in-flexible
Not sure what the left or right hands are doing
Uncertain future for sugary drinks

Advice to Senior Management – Come up with a game plan & execute it.

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 PepsiCo full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – You learn alot through fighting to facilitate your goals through trying to get involved in everybody else's job.

Cons – There are no operational systems and operating procedures and standards that help you do your job the standard way. Everything is subjective.

Advice to Senior Management – Management should systemize and follow up on people planning, not only senior management planning. Everyone in the company should have a plan that is transparently communicated to them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo

Pros – Based on my experiences, good salary can be achieved, along with Good Benefits and some
great people to work with.

Cons – Quite a bit of "restructuring" has been going on recently. Also sending more development work outside of the onsite and employee staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Trust and believe in your employees, they are also customers.

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time

Pros – Fast pace and excellent for career development

Cons – overall Minimal Life Work Balance