Terrible Place To Work - Anonymous employee Kerry Employee Review

1.0
Nov 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Well established global Irish company so experience here looks good on your cv.

Cons

-Poor Work life balance -Toxic gossiping/backstabbing work culture -Poor managers who have little experience and tend to disregard employees to suit their own interests, they like you when they want something from you. -Awful training, no documented processes or training manuals for roles and little opportunities for professional development such as upskilling, training courses. -Huge workloads with very little guidance and support given and expected to take on huge workloads from the start. -Poor location which makes it difficult to socialise and make friends there as most people commute, so felt quite lonely sometimes. -Live to work and not a work to live environment with no thanks or recognition given to those who break their back, the reward comes after having spent a number of years there but with that comes increased workload. -You don't feel very involved in the company, particularly in finance, I could not attend certain events such as the finance conference as I was required to work instead. -Under resourced roles meaning there's huge pressure put on people due to high volume workload. Constantly jumping between and prioritising tasks to suit the business and you often feel like you need to complete work at weekends due to high expectations and unrealistic targets. -Very high turnover, lots of talented young people leaving due to poor management, tedious workload and being burnt out and unhappy here. -Hire and fire attitude, the company doesn't care about your personal life. -For a global food company you get very little free samples of new products launched unless you attend sensory sessions.

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Thank you for sharing your positive review and we appreciate the valuable work you and our employees do every day. We do take care to ensure the organization is right sized, but also to cascade all internal opportunities to apply for positions and grow, and to develop people. For assistance in finding out more, please contact your HR partner and they can help guide you to where to learn more.
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Cons

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