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Ferrara Candy Company

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Ferrara Candy Company reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)
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Marco Capurso

89% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jun 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You work with candy. Good pay.

Cons

Leadership provides no direction or strategy. Everything is always a fire drill. People are expected to work long hours and horrible work life balance. Executives are obsessed with consultants and often hire them into positions that they are not qualified for (always enamored with the next shiny object but it never lasts). Very bad job listening or soliciting feedback from employees. Heavily skewed towards sales and marketing, so operations, finance and IT are often left cleaning up the mess that sales / marketing create.

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Ferrara Candy Company Response
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Employee satisfaction is a top priority, and we’re sorry this wasn’t demonstrated to you. Setting our team members up for success starts with clear direction, communication and training. We're sorry to hear your experience was not satisfactory. Our leadership team is working hard behind the scenes to communicate the future of Ferrara to all levels. They are ensuring we provide proper training and resources to prevent situations like this in the future.
3.0
May 25, 2022

Ok

Recommend
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Pros

The Pay is good overall

Cons

Hours are hard for a work life balance.

1.0
May 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Nice corporate office for employees who get to go there. Awesome people. Free candy. Decent PTO and benefits.

Cons

This program is a joke. There’s insane and constant turnover in the company. Pay increases are so small they’re essentially non-existent. They hire in with the mindset of obtaining the “best and the brightest” then burn you out so badly people leave without exit plans in place. Management does not care about the people, have ignored multiple and consistent requests for feedback that employees are desperate to give. Employees are used to fill in roles in the company that they can’t hire other people to do because the role is so intense that nobody stays in it. Almost half the people in the program have quit in less than a year, with more to come surely. Management hasn't dealt with any of the issues this company has, they’re aware of the high turnover and burn out but refuse to do anything to solve it. Bullying from managers is allowed and ignored, young employees are exploited until they quit. If you get forced into a supervisory position in the plant, expect 60 hour work weeks with 6 days a week regularly. Will guilt trip you if you mention that you are not available on a weekend day. Would not recommend to anyone unless you already have a plan for leaving.

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