Speaking about Convenience and Foodservice: Meeting heavy culture + Messy Org hierarchy + Heavy rotation = Frustration - Brand Planner General Mills Employee Review

2.0
Mar 16, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Nice campus. Lots of perks. Good to have on resume.

Cons

-Meetings upon meetings. -Project oriented with heavy rotation. No one knows who does what. -Culture promotes bad management practices and stifles creativity. -Arbitrary terms of success. -Too much Org overlap.

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5.0
Mar 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance, many people fully remote or hybrid

Cons

Layoffs are often and if you don’t move quickly you get caught up in them

4.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Always busy with challenging work.

Cons

Office politics slows things down, seems like some of the work is about checking a box and not about really creating value or improved processes.

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