PepsiCo Reviews

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time

Pros – Poor Management and poor organizational structure

Cons – Flexible schedule and great benefits

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Health benefits are very good!

Cons – You have to enjoy workiing in a sales atmosphere.

Advice to Senior Management – Support your administrative staff as if your job depended on it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very challenging roles from the beginning of your employment. Also allows for very excelled advancement in your career.

Cons – Can be difficult to institute change because they have been around for so long

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent opportunity to learn and know different business operations. The Company in general is so interested in employees well being. Challenging.

Cons – I think that for women is still difficult to get promotions or a raise for the same work as male colleagues do.
Low compensation compared with the market.
The company likes to laid off people every year for savings instead of exploring other options, in the other hand they hire so much people using outsourcing companies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company culture encourages an opportunity to give back to the community. There is a flexible environment that allows the ability to balance work and home.

Cons – There is more tention regarding the possibility of lay offs.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to encourage diversity.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Working as R&D scientist, you are guaranteed to never be bored, there is always more things to do, than time allows, always busy. This is good for people that enjoys highly dynamic environment. It takes certain personality to fit in.
The company is also very young spirited, entrepreneurial, and innovative

Cons – The downside is it's a highly political company. Who you knows matters, visibility of project matters. You won't move up the ladder just by doing a good job, truly needs to network and push for highly visible projects.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PepsiCo as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Diverse product line, many employees friendly and knowledgeable

Cons – Uncomfortable relationship between the PepsiCo workers and Contractors

Advice to Senior Management – Find opportunities to share projects between business units - everyone does their own thing and knows little of what others are working on within the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great place to learn about a complex multinational matrix organized organization.
Great number of opportunities if you go after them yourself.
Passionate people and opportunity to build a really strong network.
Really inspirational & strong CEO, Indra Nooyi

Cons – Link with society, a fast mover which manufactures fun for you products, meaning products that contribute to a unhealthy lifestyle. Even while the portfolio slowely moves to a more healthy for you category, its core is still processed foods and beverages.
Very layered and lots of people only partly accountable.
Work environment, not inspirational.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo full-time for more than a year

Pros – Brilliant colleagues, opportunities to grow abound, and driven culture. It's a great place to learn the CPG world. Fantastic benefits.

Cons – Politics sometimes interfere with efficiency, hard to grow quickly in R&D, lagging behind other CPGs in terms of innovation and technology.

Advice to Senior Management – Include your direct reports in the conversation. They'll appreciate being kept in the loop from a top down approach.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at PepsiCo

Pros – There is Nothing to read here

Cons – Too much work. Pressure, but High Reward