Good brands but highly bureaucratic and slow moving organization - Associate Marketing Manager General Mills Employee Review

2.0
Apr 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Good brands to put on your resume - Flexible work time (i.e. can leave at 5pm and finish rest of work from home)

Cons

- Highly bureaucratic / political organization. This organization is not a meritocracy. Cannot challenge management. Must support upper management's ideas even when they are not the right thing for the business - Mills claims to be innovation but their idea of innovation is more along the lines of taking a big box of cereal and putting it in six little boxes than actually coming up with a truly innovative process or product - Rotations are long. It will take you 3-4 years of rotations before you get a real promotion.

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