JBS\Pilgrim's - The wrong career move
Pros
You're in the same boat with some really great people who are struggling with the same problems you are - incompetent management, way too much OT, no work life balance and way too small of a paycheck for the work you've done.
Cons
The ethics in this place are questionable at best. Top executives in Brazil including the founders decendents, gave bribes and gamed the system in that country resulting in billions in fines. Management in the U.S. likes to say that kind of thing isn't happening here but honestly most of the C Suite is full of people from Brazil who grew up in the company along side those who perpetrated the bribery and fraud. Top executives are also generally thought to be under qualified in the U.S. for C level management positions, so you do the math. Overall, I regret the three years I spent at JBS. I worked like a dog the entire time I was there just to have greedy middle managers take credit for my efforts. I was constantly asked to cut corners and several times was asked to do things I wasn't comfortable doing. I had no life, sometimes working 50+ hour weeks back to back with not recognition or thanks. My time there will always be remembered as the worst years of my career and for my family who never stopped supporting me through the constant bad days, weeks and even months. Now you might be saying to yourself "this person had a bad manager or bad team or a job they just didn't like. They aren't being objective!" to that I would say, I love what I do for a living and I have loved it for years before working for JBS and I'm sure I will love if for years to come at my new employer. And as for the bad department or manager thing, let me tell you this - if you make the same mistake I did come to work here you will be reminded of that mistake every Monday morning when HR brings sometimes as many as 20 new employees around on their traditional office tour. You will see their bright excited faces and you will think to yourself "another batch of suckers who are about to hate their lives". Why do I tell you this? Because most... let me say it again MOST of the people here are very unhappy. My experience wasn't the exception, it was the rule. It doesn't matter which department or manager you're interviewing with stay away! There is a bad culture at this company that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. It's not a when or an if you will be unhappy here, you will regret the decision, I'm 100% sure of it.
