ADM reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,878 total reviews)
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Juan R. Luciano

71% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

ADM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,878 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ADM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
May 16, 2015

Analyst

Anonymous employee
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Pros

ADM provides free iced tea and popcorn everyday. They have a great omelete bar about once a week, and the salad bar is pretty good.

Cons

ADM uses very old practices and has an older management mentality. It is very hierarchical. An outsider would also be surprised as some of the basic policies that this MNC does not have. The salaries are not as high as they should be across the board. I feel that they take advantage of local people from the central Illinois area in providing these lower salaries. In addition, it is troubling to see the company move its headquarters to Chicago from Decatur. I understand to an extent the business reasons for doing this, but I am concerned that this will severely damage an already fragile economy. Decatur was the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal article describing the serious challenges. It just feels like ADM is leaving its roots and sacrificing the people of Decatur in the process.

2.0
May 13, 2015

Process engineer

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Pros

Being able to work closely with operators. Having able enough internal resources

Cons

Very well known of micromanagement

3.0
May 13, 2015

Great pay, benefits, and work wasn't bad.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great pay, great benefits, work wasn't too hard, people were pretty good to work with too.

Cons

Swing shift was not easy with a family. Worked seven days of seconds, off 24 hours, work seven nights of thirds, off for 48 hours, work seven days of first shift, then you get four days out. It's not too bad when you get adjusted to it, but for me having a wife and kid, it has sucked. Management doesn't want to listen to you when you tell them that there's a problem, but when that problem gets out of hand and stops production it's the employee's fault. Safety only matters if it won't cost anything to do. If there's a problem with the tracks, and you tell your supervisor, he tells you he'll pass it up the line but keep using that track. When you keep using the track and cars derail, it's your fault because your supervisor never passed it up to management. Communication is non existent. When the superintendent comes out of his office, he doesn't know what anything is or where anything is. He will also yell at you for doing something wrong, when he doesn't know if it's wrong or right in the first place. If you take your concerns higher than him, that he doesn't know what is going on, they tell you not to worry about it. It's a very discouraging system.

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