Great Values - Anonymous employee ADM Employee Review

3.0
Feb 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company aspires to great things, wants to embrace innovation, and foster a continuous learning ethos. It has highly motivated, talented and sincere colleagues who are willing to share their experience with each other. Teamwork is highly valued and rewarded. The company was transformed over the past 10 years by new leadership.

Cons

Blind devotion to "shareholder value" will be the Achilles heel for delivering on the leadership's aspirations. You can't close a facility, toss 80 people on the street right before Christmas and rationalize it with "blah, blah, blah shareholder value." Internal loyalty will be eroded by this tone deafness. Much of what they do in support of their aspirations they try to do on the cheap.

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