Hostess Brands Employee Review

I have been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – Salary and benefits are better than most comparable positions with other companies.

Cons – The company has hired so many people from the outside for upper management that we are top heavy. The new people do not understand the business and they have made one bad decision after another. They have held meetings asking the employees what needs to be done to turn the company around and they end up doing the opposite. In an effort to justify the cost of hiring more upper management they have been laying off the people on the front lines doing all the work which squeezes middle management to pick up the slack. They have eliminated positions without thinking of who was to do the work so the few of us who once cared, had to scramble to cover the workload even though it wasn't related to our job. The company is so inefficient now, It takes weeks to get things done that used to be done in just a few minutes. Now they are going to close most of the offices and outsource the work overseas. The morale is very low with most expecting impending doom for the company.

Advice to Senior Management – The company needs to eliminate the current inefficient structure and go back to the same structure it had when it made money. The routes will have to be sold.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend