Dole Food Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Dole Food

Pros – Good Training, with a lot of exposure to all aspects of operations, international experience, good benefits package

Cons – low pay, overworked, no clear career plan, no succession planning

Advice to Senior Management – rethink employee compensation package, a lot of brain-drain is already happening

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dole Food

Pros – - Location - you can't go wrong being in the Santa Monica Mountains and 10 miles north of Malibu.
- Work Life balance is nice because I live close to work, not the same story for my coworkers.
- Nice building to work in.

Cons – - Company expects brand name to carry it to success.
- Management doesn't financially support the growth of the brand.
- Most employees work here because it is in the location they want to live.
- Very inefficient.
- Reactionary vs. visionary company.
- Focused on stuffing ourselves into a niche that hinders financial growth.
- No leadership development resulting in some key leadership positions being filled with incompetent leaders
- No true accountability or execution.
- Uninspiring
- California is beautiful but expensive, especially when we haven’t received a bonus for the past number of years in order to pay down company debt

Advice to Senior Management – Understand that people will make or break a company. Dole is a great brand, but it is deteriorating because of the middle management. Some Key Managers in the habit of using band-aids to hide their own poor decisions and weaknesses.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dole Food

Pros – there are few lay offs and high level of security. most jobs are not challenging or stressful, get free fruit

Cons – no opportunites to grow, no innovation, very backwards and old fashion, not a lot of training opportunites offered, only senior management has a say in what goes on , no flex time schedules or work from home options (in practice, theory maybe)

Advice to Senior Management – get with the times! employee satisfaction and work life balanace leds to a great success for the company, work with people and their lives/desire

Former Employee – worked at Dole Food

Pros – A very solid place to work with great co workers and opportunities. I did like the Career Opportunities. But the communication between compensation workers and Senior leadership was second to none.

Cons – Long hours and physical labor were just a few cons. The work life balance was pretty good but It could have been better. The pay was low for the amount of work that was expected of you on a day to day basis. With an education this job may have been better for me but i was treated with fairness and respect. The senior leadership could have been stronger.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your workers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend