Miserable work/life balance, terrible culture, constant lay-offs. Would NOT recommend Mgt Trainee Program - Management Trainee Program Burger King Employee Review

2.0
May 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Miami is a beautiful, unique city - Given a lot of responsibility at the analyst level - Exposure to upper management and senior leadership team - Management Trainee Program has a lot of young, recent graduates. Great for meeting people your age if you're moving to Miami and don't know anyone there

Cons

- IF YOU READ ANYTHING READ THIS. Out of the 34 Management Trainees who started in June 2012, eleven months later only 20 of them are still with Burger King! 6 got let go immediately after the rotations, 6 quit over the course of the 11 months, 1 got outsourced, 1 got laid off later on. - As others have remarked, there is a constant fear of getting fired or laid off. Even 2-3 years after 3G took over, lay-offs happen every couple months or so (includes upper management, recent MBA hires, etc.). Can happen to anyone. - Management Trainees have close to ZERO say of which department they will rotate through and where they will permanently be placed. In fact, a majority will get placed in "Global Business Services", which is another word for their processing center. - Technology and quantitative analysis is archaic, and all done through Excel sheets. Way behind other competitors, and surprising given how large a company BK is. - Expected* to work 60+ hrs. per week. Even if you have nothing to do, leaving before 7pm in certain departments will get you stares and the assumption you are not doing work.

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