Cargill reviews

For as large as the company is, communication and cooperation between business units is poor at best. The benefits of being part of a global company is lost with the inability to learn from the successes and mistakes of others and other business units. This coupled with top heavy management makes for inefficiencies and the inability to make quick, effective decisions. This leads to chasing where an industry is headed rather than leading it.

Functional departments have their own policies and their own HR, so benefits and policies are not always consistent from one to another. HR is there for the benefit of the department, and requests for help from them by an employee were ignored and not documented. A true "good old boys" network, very political, with long term managers who know the right people often unaccountable for actions that probably could have gotten them let go at other places. The culture is such that it's who you are "pals" with rather than what you can do. Salaries less than the competition, insurance with a low life-time maximum.