General Mills reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(3,879 total reviews)
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Jeff Harmening

80% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

General Mills has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,879 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Mills employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good people. Good Campus. That is it.

Cons

The organization has fallen into "tough" times mostly instituted by its own sequence of mindless actions. Continue to double down on "Hamburger Helper" and Meals and come out with frozen iterations of items no one buys. The Finance organization is stuck in the 70's where Merit does not get you promoted. Years of Service do. Top Experienced hires are treated as second class citizens as most leadership is inbred and only receptive to change on the surface. Millennial workforce will not wait a decade to get into Management when more pay and better opportunities are every where around. If you are highly motivated and sharp and want to move up within reasonable timelines RUN the other way. If you like working from home and enjoy minimal hours to get things done and nothing more and want to stay in one title/tier for a long time. Join GMI. Pay/Bonus is given not on individual performance but the performance of the company which is clearly not the summation of results. Or maybe it is. Weak talent = Weak Company performance.

2.0
May 18, 2015

Not about the people anymore.

Recommend
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Pros

+ Work life balance is great + Great benefits + Great people + Summer hours + Dress for your day

Cons

- Slow moving company - Higher level management does not care about its people anymore, forcing good employees out of the company - Promotions are class-based until you get to a high enough level: hard to stand out - You are at the mercy of management as to what your role will be

1.0
Mar 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Looks good on resume for other employers

Cons

- Being an AMM is like being lowest on the food chain - VERY political! - You can't have any kind of meeting without an extensive powerpoint deck that your manager made you stay up all weekend working on, only to pick apart ten times - Passive aggressive culture where nobody can give honest opinion - Unrealistic amount of work given to one person - Location - Minneapolis is a nightmare of cold weather and cold people

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