Awful, awful company. STAY AWAY IF YOU CAN HELP IT.
Where do I begin !!! In short, during the 5 years working for this company I did not meet one employee that was genuinely happy with their job. This goes from the service merchandisers (stocking personnel) to the delivery drivers.
I had the pleasure to work with people that have been with this company for over 20 years and they hated working for Mondelez (Nabisco). This company is nothing short of a joke. Last year, 2014 the company was hard pressed to make quarterly numbers. What is Nabisco's answer to making numbers ? Send in unnecessary product to stores!!! There were several times during the year at quarter close that this company FORCED it's sales employees to send orders/deliveries to customers when they did not need them. Talk about shady business practices. The reasoning for this from my immediate manager was "everybody is doing it". Hinting that other companies are doing the very same. Ha ha ha.... A joke indeed. This excuse was even used by Regional Upper Management.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Everyday complaints are plentiful.... A minute of overtime and one has to call your immediate manager for approval. Upon doing so, you are almost scolded for even bringing up the idea of overtime. This is in sales as well as in the service sector of the company. You are "given" a company car but they subtract from your pay check twice a month. They treat their merchandisers (stockers) terribly even though they are the life blood of the com
Decent pay for the type of work. No life and poor management.
Poor management/No communication/ email used to much and is unreliable/ expect you to be doing things work related on your little time off like emails/ stress and unbalanced work load/ unnecessary driving due to poor scheduling that doesn't make sense. There's no set route not even as an order writer/ nothing being done to improve efficiency for this type work. Just increased stress cutting budget by trying reduce hours in payroll causing you to have do work in even less time. Unrealistic time restriction but once you do this for years you get it down packed/ no uniforms , who wants to wear business casual clothes dirty and worn in warehouse like conditions/ physically demanding but you get used to it once you've done it for years. /Favoritism/Unrealistic requirements and time frame/Inefficient scheduling use of technology./unpredictable and no advance notification of schedule./work hours indefinite and unbalanced/You dont matter it's literally about numbers and dollars./Tell you what you want to hear to get you to take on extra work and more responsibility./Your hard work really isn't appreciated/They really expect the job to come before your life, family and health/ Only time you hear from dm it's something negative.rms can send an email in hours about o.t they caused adding stores to you less than 24hr notice. But anything relating to time off if practically ignored/Safety really isn't important when inclement weather arrives, there's no communication- no one should be wor
ProsPay and benefits (fulltime), No one physically on your back while you work, yearly performance raises, Percentage bonus.
ConsPoor management, No communication, Favoritism, Unrealistic requirements and time frame, Inefficient scheduling use of technology, unpredictable schedule, work hours indefinite and unbalanced
There are far better option in Retail than Mondelez.
I have worked retail for over 15 years, been in charge of a crew, worked as part of one, and worked entirely on my own. I'm an incredibly hard worker capable of pushing 80 cases an hour depending on what product is going up. I have no qualms working hard. What I do have an issue with is when I'm working as hard as you do for this company and you get little to nothing in return.
With the minimum wage soon going up to $15/hr in Massachusetts, their starting pay for most people is $2-3 under this average. When you consider you need an average of $27/hr to live in this state, it's not hard to imagine that most of us need a second job to even approach getting one end to meet the other.
I was lucky to have a pretty good sales rep above me and it worked out fairly well most of the time but, as others have said, when it came to quarter close, things became out of control. Christmas time is another ordeal as well. They bring in inordinate amounts of product none of your stores wants or needs to "hit the number," a number which is essentially a lie because it's being buffered by forced product and not actual sales. The board of directors and such must know this. I've worked for stores and other companies that also rely on this falsification of numbers to feed lies to the higher-ups, but this one takes the cake. Sales reps push these only because they can get bonuses and perhaps perks like a trip each year if they fall into the highest earning reps in the region. They do not care
ProsThe end of the work day.
ConsMismanagement, lack of communication, overworking, terrible pay scale, etc.
Terrible logistics supervisor new system is garbage but best pay for a part time job anywhere in NE Ohio
Overall the job itself and work wasn’t that bad but management and certain employees on the floor made it difficult to effectively do my job.
We had either day or night shift in the warehouse 9AM or 5:30 PM night shift always gets treated better though they never balance the work evenly between the two shifts so day shift has to stay on overtime while night shift leaves early or on time.
It’s pretty easy you have a picker that selects cases of Nabisco products and puts them on a conveyor belt that goes to the stacker, they stack the cases on the pallet wrap it and load it on the truck and start on the next one.
The new eWS system for picking and stacking pallets is overly complicated and takes a ridiculous amount of time away from doing your job.
It’s a Teamster job so the union does what it can to protect you but a lot of employees feel like as soon as they get a little bit of seniority they don’t have to work anymore just like everyone else. It takes at least 5 years just to get a decent stable bid if you’re full time.
It was a “part time job” but some of us casuals were working 40+ hours a week and the pay was amazing but no benefits only full timers get those. Full time requires a CDL Class A which was ridiculous they should have full time inside bids for casuals who don’t want to drive for the company.
The logistics supervisor for the Streetsboro location and the day shift foreman rule the place with an iron fist. I’ve never seen a union foreman work so closely
ProsUnion, allowed to have a speaker or Airpods in while working, Amazing weekly pay, 3+ breaks a day, free products on fridays, flexible hours for casuals, 6 weeks vacation after 25 years for full time, no weekend work
ConsCDL required for full time work, management, 13 hour daily overtime cap, no benefits for part time employees, company doesn’t help with getting your CDL anymore makes you worry about it, weird start times for 2nd shift and drivers
As a Merchandiser for Nabisco, you go into multiple grocery stores per day and service them; this includes: packing out product, selling incremental displays, and general service to the store based on their needs. If you are lucky, the management of the individual stores will not give you a hard time during your pack out, and you can move on to the next store until the day is done. Mondelez, like many retail companies, is constantly putting out new products and bulk distributing it to stores, sometimes to the displeasure of their customer. Upper management feigns obliviousness and leaves it to the people on the ground to deal with the backlash.
Part time workers are vulnerable to abuse by the management at Mondelez. Part time workers do not receive their work schedule until the day before they are expected to work (sometimes after 7pm but generally around 4-5pm). You may be asked to travel to stores (in your personal vehicle) far outside your region, and guilted into doing so by the RMS. The company reimburses mileage at 45 cents per mile AFTER the first 25 miles, so if you are asked to service a store 26 miles away from home for a 4 hour shift, the company reimburses the employee 90 cents for 51 miles driven (drive time is not included).
Many times the workload is heavy and support is limited, so the part time worker is asked to stay overtime. Full time reps are limited in the amount of overtime they can take, forcing part-timers to, on many occasions, eclipse 40 hours p
Prosindependence
Consworkload, management
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Senior Sales Representative | Tallahassee, FL | Jun 13, 2019
Horrible job and Management
They PREACH work life balance. There is NONE. You get your schedule, at 5pm the day before and it will frequently change. They give the Sales and Senior Sales more deliveries than the merchandisers because if they keep the merchandisers hours low, upper management will bonus. Sales and Seniors are told they will only do about 30% of deliveries, but that is total lie. As a Senior, you travel constantly. A week, at a time, you are on the road, covering a Sales persons territory, while they are on PTO. Sales people will leave Seniors all their returns and out of dates to clean up, when they are on PTO and then throw you under the bus when they come back. Management turns a blind eye to the Sales peoples sloppy work and blames it on store and merchandisers. Stores treat you horribly. Management will call Sales on their approved PTO, if they have an issue. Must build displays and do deliveries on ad day. Truck deliveries come at different times, every day and are constantly late, so again work life balance is a joke. If a truck is a few hours late, you are expected to clock out and sit in the parking lot, of the store and wait till the truck gets there and then clock back in. The time in store, they assign you is never enough to get the job done properly. Management is clueless to the challenges, at store level until a truck delivery is denied, at a store. Then they care because the sales loss, from that delivery not coming through, affects their bonus. Work is very monotonous and
Depending on what territory, sales representative and supervisor you work for it can be great or awful.
A typical work day depends on the intelligence of your sales rep and their scheduling. If you have a great one who knows how to write excellent orders and schedules accordingly, life for you will be easy. If you have a horrible sales rep, the one that can't write a good order which in turn can't schedule appropriately for the bad order he/she wrote, your day will be very long and may require over time to finish.
The hardest part of the job is the pressure to stock a store as quickly as possible. The goal is 50 cases an hour. However, realistically it's more like 35 to 45 cases an hour, including rotating and "facing" the product. The average grocery order a merchandiser will stock is 40 to 80 cases alone. If you are lucky, you will be paired up w/ another merchandiser to stock the larger stores like Wal-Mart which an order can be in the couple of hundred cases of cookies and crackers. Again, it depends on the intelligence of your sales rep to order what the store actually needs and sells.
Best advice is to get to know the key employees in each grocery store you work in. The receivers and department heads I find know more than the store managers and are easy to find at all times. Check in and out of every store with the store manager if you can, if you can't find them check in and out with the store receiver-always. It will protect you against a sales rep or fell
ProsIndependence to work in the style that bests suits you.
I originally worked for Kraft and was working for the company through out the transition from Kraft to Mondelez International. While working for Kraft I worked harder than ever as both a Sales Associate and a Sales Representative but I learned a lot and felt like I was working towards something and building a career. After working for the company for almost two years I left my role in the Minneapolis market and was rehired as a Sales Associate in the Phoenix market. My spouse took a new position with his company and due to his transfer I needed to transfer as well. That's is where my experience went down hill, starting with the fact that I was not able to transfer my position I was treated like a brand new employee and forced to start over and take a demotion or nothing at all. I was disappointed that even though I worked for a nationwide company there was no support for an employee in good standing looking to transfer. In addition to that unfortunately there were some major differences between the two markets. I have never been treated as poorly as I was treated working in the Phoenix market. It was so disheartening after working hard and seeing the results from my hard work in one market to come to another market and feel like I was forced to leave due to the way I was treated. Management was very young lacked experience, there were several instances where management crossed the line of professionalism but they were never held accountable. My manager in particular
ProsCompany Car
ConsHours, lack of resources, lack of opportunities for development, lack of diversity, unequal treatment
I’ve worked for the company for 2 years now. A loooot of driving, often to areas far away that you never agreed you’d go to.
I started as part time but then they made me full time after a couple months, which meant I got a slight raise, health benefits and PTO, etc. Ever since then, I’ve been trying to move up in the company because I have a degree but it’s an uphill battle. They’d hire random people off the street into higher positions than me when I’d made it clear I’d like to move up, and claimed it was because I didn’t have order writing experience, even though they had been telling me for over a year that they would get me trained on order writing.. but never did. So the reason they wouldn’t promote me was their own fault and then they never do anything to fix it even if you constantly ask your boss and his boss about it.
Now they’ve just now started to train me on it, a year after I was suppose to learn it, and claim they want to promote me because they see “great potential” but hardly anything ever happens.
This job has spiked my anxiety so bad that at times I can’t even go into the stores I’m scheduled due to this anxiety and it’s made life way more stressful than it should be. I’m not sure if this is worth everything I’ve gone through.
I haven’t gotten a raise in a year and a half despite busting my butt off, and plus I’m not even getting a raise for learning order writing. Just taking on more responsibility in an already overly stressful environment with
well, this would be tough, since I worked both as warehouse and as a driver. So, let's just tell you what I can. Starting out working there was Great, working for Morris, old boss, was always a good day, always smiles!! Don't get me wrong, it's still work, we still had to do our jobs and we had our busy times...but when Morris was the Boss,...Much, Much easier of a work place!!! Now as a warehouse worker, you would put on your headset if you were tossing, listen to what the voice tells you what to pick, toss the item or items on the conveyor belt and move on to your next product. If you were catching, you would be at the end of the conveyor belt putting product on a pallet with the bar code facing out. Building pallets by cubic inches, so it all depends on the size of the order if it is more than one pallet. At the end, you wrap the pallet up and put the pallet on the truck. Now as a Driver, you start out early in the morning, get your paper work and hand held in order, do your proper thorough inspection of your truck, check your miles, mark down your time, and head out on your way to make deliveries, while making deliveries, making sure of getting proper signatures, securing loads when needed, and always making sure if you have a lift gate that it is up at all times. When returning to the branch from deliveries, do a post inspection of the truck, do your paper work, and check with supervisors. Co-workers, have a few friends rest I really don't care for....I am there to do a
Classic cheap slave labour with people who give zero care about you.
The first thing is you're going to experience there is the locker room.
If you're lucky, you'll be given a rusty half sized locker (can only fit a half full small backpack if you squeezed it in hard enough) which you were supposed to fit in your shoes (they require in plant dedicated steel toes), jacket and pants. As you will be required to change to plant dedicated white cotton pants and shirt if you don't want to wear a disposable coat made of plastic like unbreathable material in a non air conditioned atmosphere while doing non stop fast based intensive labor.
You'll have no bench to put your stuff on while you change and will just have to just leave them on a nasty floor in a tiny space where you're constantly bumping into a dozen of other coworkers from your shift who are hassling to get in there in time and from the previous shift who are hassling to get out of there so they can get some sleep before having to come back to relief you when you finish your shift.
All the half sized lockers are habhazrdly jammed in the back 1/4 of the change room. The other 3/4 of the room consists of full sized lockers with neat benches in front of them where you get to watch your bosses who have been working there for over 20 years (less than half of the number of everyone else) laugh and socialize while they get to change and get ready in human like conditions.
Oh, and if you don't get any locker at all, you will just have to leave your stuff unattended at your risk.
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ProsIf you live within the area, it's gonna be close to you.
ConsTerrible hours, inhumane work conditions and atmosphere, disregarding management
This company gave me the run around but good. The first warning sign was when I told them in my interview that I can only drive an automatic vehicle (driving was required for my job), they said that it wouldn’t be a problem and that they could organise an automatic vehicle for me. The vehicle I was issued was a manual and they expected me to drive it from day one. After jumping through several hoops to get an automatic vehicle organised for me, they gave me one on a temporary basis. In the 9 months I worked for them I had four company cars (as a result I now have a £758.00 tax bill that I have to pay because going through that many company cars in such a short time). Had they listened and kept to their word and organised an automatic transmission vehicle in the first place, it would have saved time, angst and money on both mine and their behalf.
The biggest gripe I have with Mondelez is that they didn’t pay my garden leave when I left the company. After countless emails and communications with them, it took Mondelez three months to pay me my garden leave. How does a multi billion pound cooperation take three months to pay a few hundred pounds.
While working for a big FMCG like Mondelez looks good on a CV, please look else where. This company constantly twists your words, lies to you and belittles you. Our monthly meetings were just occasions for our manager to get us together to berate us. When we tried to provide explanations and alternatives to help solve the problems
Questions And Answers about Mondelez International
If you were in charge, what would you do to make Mondelez International a better place to work?
Asked Nov 2, 2016
There has been some staggering numbers of employee turnaround lately. Instead of doing like other companies are doing, giving sign on bonuses, why not reward your current employees. Especially any that have worked through the pandemic, being in stores, day in and day out, covering for employees who took time off because they had been exposed or had COVID-19. You have some true heroes who have not been properly rewarded or acknowledged for their dedication and commitment to Mondelez/Nabisco. Why not give a bonus to any and all employees who didn’t take time off and are still working. That might go a long ways for employee retention.
Answered Nov 29, 2021
Bring jobs of production back to USA!! And hire more full time employees within the company. No favoritism or family persuasion.
Answered Sep 3, 2020
What advice would you give the CEO of Mondelez International about how to improve it?
Asked Oct 30, 2016
Fire all middle management! Worthless! In 15 years my DM never once works with me in the field 🤣. People don’t believe me when I tell them that! Totally 100% true
Answered Dec 4, 2019
Clean house in the HR department! Hold people accountable, from the top down! How many lawsuits are you going to need to wake up to the fact that you have a problem? Guess time will tell!
Answered Dec 4, 2019
What is the interview process like at Mondelez International?
Asked Apr 1, 2016
The interview process once you are are an employee, to move within the company, is very subjective. They only “interview” people if they don’t want them! Others will be promoted without the interview at all! They think it’s keeping them just under the wire for EEOC charge violations! Nice try HR!!
Answered Dec 5, 2019
Phone interview, in person interview
Answered Mar 25, 2019
What is Mondelez International sick leave policy? How many sick days do you get per year?
Asked Oct 20, 2016
A management type employee gets PTO with includes vacation and 10 days of sick pay
Answered Jan 4, 2019
Yes they give sick leave, Instead of vacation days you get PTO which can be used as a sick day or as a sick day.
Answered Feb 11, 2018
How many hours does a part time have
Asked Aug 8, 2016
Here in Michigan is 15-20
Answered Feb 8, 2019
Work 6 days straight. Schedule for 5 hrs however most days are 10hrs. I have to take long restroom breaks as breaks. After working 7hrs straight on my second day I was talked to like a dog for moving to slow. Based on what other employees say the hrs will scale back eventually. Cant wait
