PepsiCo reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,241 total reviews)
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Ramon Laguarta

80% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

PepsiCo has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 17,241 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PepsiCo 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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2.0
Jun 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and pay are great compared to direct competitors. Your team of managers are always willing to help one another.

Cons

Unrealistic hours at work at Frito Lay. Zero work life balance and anything under a 12 hour day is frowned upon. They expect managers to run routes, be on call24/7 and get reprimanded for not completing your own assignments even though you're running routes due to lack of staffing. New upper management team act as if they are better than everyone else there. District managers connect with their sales reps and that's what keeps most of them from not quitting! Upper management keeps pushing to "write them up"... they are already upset about the new pay structure which is based on working a minimum of 50 hours to make less money. Granted some people shouldn't be there but even the morale of some great sales reps are down. New ZBM has zero empathy and sympathy and doesn't care about anyone but himself. If he spent as much time on hiring staff as he did on smoking outside, maybe the place wouldn't be falling apart. Maybe managers wouldn't be quitting either!

2.0
Oct 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I used to enjoy working for Frito Lay as an RSR. The hours were long and the work was hard, but the money to be made from commission was good. Then we just found out that the company is restructuring and our jobs in the large format stores are being completely cut. Now we have the choice of getting on a truck if we can (most can't because of seniority) or taking an hourly position with no commission, which is a 35-50% pay cut. Frito Lay has posted record profits the past few years, but they keep devaluing their workers.

Cons

The company does not value its workers, plain and simple. Some of our guys have been working there for 20 years and are having their livelihood taken away when it's too late to begin somewhere else. Imagine going from $65,000/year to $33,000/year for doing the same kind of work. No room for advancement. No performance/merit-based raises, you'll make the same for working hard as the joker who doesn't. Do not work for this company if you can avoid it--your efforts will not be rewarded. And if you work for Frito Lay and this hasn't happened in your zone yet, HEADS UP! There will be a nationwide rollout. Look at Kansas City for examples. No more RSRs, now just Customer Service Specialists (merchandisers with added responsibilities making hourly pay around 16 bucks/hour).

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