General Mills reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(3,880 total reviews)
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Jeff Harmening

81% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

General Mills has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,880 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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4K reviews
3.0
May 14, 2015

What once was great is gone

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Espouses terrific values High levels of integrity with customers and consumers Support for community Sustainability

Cons

What once was a great culture is now changing due to restructurings, job eliminations, expense containment, etc. Employees who are "left behind" to pick up the pieces are beginning to leave and more will go after meager incentive checks in the summer.

3.0
May 14, 2015

Weak Leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great brands that make selling easy!

Cons

Poor leadership, low morale, continuous restructure and layoffs.

2.0
Feb 21, 2015

Overrated

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart and dynamic co-workers, beautiful site and buildings, on-site amenities such as Caribou Coffee and employee gym.

Cons

- Management at both upper and middle levels often comes across as arrogant, especially in Finance and IT. - Employees -- especially long-term -- are treated like numbers on a spreadsheet: if they become too "expensive" they're simply replaced with shiny, new, younger and lower-paid college graduates. This seems to happen even to long-time employees who consistently get good performance reviews. - A seemingly company-wide reluctance for people to own processes makes finding solutions to some problems very inefficient and circuitous, sometimes resulting in dead-ends. - There's far too much rigidity and regimentation throughout, so getting things done can be painfully slow. - "Minnesota Nice" culture gets old. - Career advancement is difficult, overly cumbersome, and sometimes mysterious. It doesn't need to be this hard. - Very, very political corporate culture.

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