PepsiCo reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,241 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 17,241 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 Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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17K reviews
3.0
Dec 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Merchandising managers will usually let you go home after you complete your route unless there is another employee slacking on their route which you will then have to cover for. -Met a lot of new people and was able to network. -55 cents per gallon for travel added up if you drive an economy car. -If you want the extra hours and work hard you will get called to come in.

Cons

There is some micromanaging. Every sells representative prefers their store to be certain way so good luck trying to please. You will usually get blamed for someone else's mistake. Coworkers judge even though it should reflect on management. Some of the routes make no sense. A lot of merchandiser team leads brought in more income than the sells representatives which is supposedly a promotion.

1.0
Nov 14, 2016

Beware - Soul Crushing!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is only one pro of working at Pepsi and that is name recognition. If you're looking to start your career and then move on as fast as humanely possible to better things - this is the company to start at. Work at this insufferable place for one year and you can go anywhere.

Cons

Too many cons to name, but here are few: Work / life balance is horrific. Unorganized and inconsistent at every turn (literally every single team operates from its own set of rules). Push their values and moral code on you every single day, even when you try to politely opt out of events /teams. Every business decision is based solely on monetary value, not on quality of work or value of service provided (do a quick Google search for their IT/infrastructure vendor - this is a decision they will be paying for in monetary and unmonetary ways for the next 5 years of the contract). Majority of their products are genuinely terrible for you as a consumer and Pepsi genuinely doesn't care (see prior con as to why; hint $). 4-1 ratio of Chiefs to Indians. You will have literally 3 to 4 managers & directors to report to on every team, with 3 to 4 sets of rules for each one. This does not even include project managers that you give status updates to. Most employees are contractors who have been hired on full time over the years, so get ready to deal with ALOT of middle aged moms who do not have a single college credit hour to their name, let alone a college degree and who miss work constantly. Management regularly referred to certain staff as being from the "island of misfit toys". Terrible, yes - Incorrect, no. As mentioned in the title, soul crushing atmosphere and culture. This is the movie, "Office Space" come to life. You will wake up every day miserable and be around miserable people. Again, this is just a small few of the cons but you get the point. I gave Pepsico a 1star rating simply because GlassDoor does not allow you to give zero stars.

2.0
Nov 8, 2016

Not a company for age 50+ employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large company with great Performance with Purpose vision and objectives manage operations in a way that is responsive to the sustainability of the environment and ecosystem.

Cons

This is a company for young people. Once people hit age 50+ there is virtually no room for advancement or promotion. The Company HR personnel are not willing to review older employees for promotion thinking that they do not want to expend energies on those who might retire within the next 5-10 years. People really need to screw up in order to get fired at PepsiCo but their are a very large number of people who just coast by doing the absolute minimum because they know they will not be promoted or awarded for extra effort.

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