Great People, Huge Potential - Anonymous employee FreshDirect Employee Review

5.0
Nov 12, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As a tech-enabled *food* company, food comes first, so: -Lots of great food around the offices -Passionate group of foodies -Colleagues are some of my best personal friends -Lots of loyal "old timers," who are flexible SO MUCH POTENTIAL: FD as at the forefront of the disruption of traditional supermarket/grocery, and rivaled really only by Ocado in terms of scale and expertise. The opportunity for just the "base" business is massive, let alone add-ons like same-day. CAREER OPPORTUNITY - if you do a great job, you will be rewarded with new challenges. If you're able to sell your vision cross-functionally, no will stop you from realizing it. HARD PROBLEMS - attract some really smart people and solving them provides a real sense of achievement 20% Employee discount New world-class campus and facility in the Bronx Highly marketable experience for roles in CPG, Retail, Manufacturing, or Ecommerce

Cons

Some growing pains: red tape popping up and more concern about "how we work" and "what roles are" that can prevent us from just getting stuff done No strong vision/leadership in tech product management As a business built on next-day service fulfillment - there can be a lot of fire-drills

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