I dont even know where to begin. I can start with the 72 hour work weeks over your entire spring and summer. Oh and if you went over you got wrote up because it was your responsibility to take keep track even when some people spoke up about going over and were told they had to stay. I know a couple of times people walked out because legally you can walk out if you will be going over 72 hours in a week.
There is absolutely no work/life balance. 12 hour shifts on a 2,2,3 make for a rough go when you are coming in every rotation you have off for OT. They couldnt care less that you are working so much. They cant keep people around due to treatment, improper training procedures, long hours, lack of respect and lack of know how in leadership.
They would train someone on an advanced module for a week then throw them by themselves when some of these processes take 3 months, which is the training standard in written policy.
Communication is horrible across the board. So so bad. Employees are treated like liabilities and not good hard workers. Favortism is widespread. Good hard working employees are demoralized by slackers getting all of the attention and being allowed to do nothing, as they are rewarded for just being brown noses. People come in for overtime on their days off and the people that work on that shift normally would be wondering around doing nothing while you were there on your day off.
HR isnt good at all. They are so disconnected from what goes on that serious
Working for Nestle has been the best job I have ever had
The day starts out at 3:50 pm when punching in and getting my snowsuit on and then going into our pre-shift meeting where we were assigned our duties for the shift. I have experience in all Warehouse functions from Production to Shipping but have been utilized mostly in Palletizing where Production of Ice Cream Pallets were conveyor staged for put away. The shift ended at 4:20 am.
In each warehouse function, I made a point to establish working relationships with co-workers and create a "team effort" to accomplish goals set by the management staff.
I drive a 30K pound forklift in a -20 degree warehouse and lifting up to 1 ton of Ice Cream up to 40' into an air location.
My co-workers were literally like a U.N. team of people who were from various countries around the world.
Management personnel are known as "coaches" and were supposed to be "coaching" workers to produce the highest number of moves (cases per hour or pallets per hour) while giving 100% accuracy, 100% on time delivery and being 100% safe. We are currently over 700 days safe.
The hardest part of my job was meeting the expectations of "coaches" who had no idea of what entailed the execution of each job within the warehouse and the difficulties that we faced on a daily basis.
For the first 3 years of my employment with Nestle, we celebrated accomplishments with Family Picnics at area Amusement parks, Employee Field Trips to indoor amusement parks and Catered Dinners/Lunches throughou
ProsCan buy at wholesale prices anything that Nestle makes in the company store
ConsTeminated if you can not keep up the high paced, high volume expectations
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Accounts Receivable Clerk | Richmond, VA | Apr 30, 2013
To secure a position with a stable and profitable organization, where I can be a member of a team and utilize my business experience to the fullest.
I provide a full range of administrative support to the Finance team, Manager’s, and Front Line employees for VA, NC, SC, TN and GA. Responsibilities include the below.
• Primary contact to enter local PB2 promotions for select. (Customers/Distributors/Foodservice customers).
• Make necessary change to existing promos based on business requirements.
• Update account information in PB2 to reflect accurate information (i.e. promotion parameters, duration of promotion, products in scope).
• Application and research of invoices for scan bill back, ad fees and other promotional expenses.
• Generate and Distribute promo calendars to necessary Sales staff.
• Work with sales team/customers to resolve promotional allowance discrepancies.
• Processed Payments on AMEX P-Card and reconciled coding on a monthly basis.
• Maintain pricing list and product listings to keep contracts up to date.
• Maintain authorization lists including new products and specific accounts.
• Update Item Maintenance and account updates in IMREX.
• Coordinate and maintain some national accounts working with various account managers.
• Attend monthly A/R Aging Review and Follow up on Issues.
• Maintain DOT file on employees, trucks and safety supplies.
• Provide administrative support to relevant sales team for contract maintenance, new item presentations and product discontinuation.
• Completion of Special Projects and other duties as assigned
• Perform Quarterly Testing (SOX) Process.
• Main
I didn't work there long before I realized that it wasn't for me - especially having a family. They put you through a rigorous training process for two days where you learn hundreds of rules, then they expect you to remember every detail once you finally get out to the floor. Some employees are helpful while others are utter butt holes - they act as if they don't want you to know everything they know, and if you have a question, they look and talk to you like you're stupid. It helps if your an attractive female - sad but true! Furthermore, because of the mask mandates, your glasses will fog up your entire twelve hour shift because you'll sweat in your hard hat and the environment is cold. Forget about using the wipes that supposedly keep them from fogging up - they don't work! You have to keep up with all kinds of tools and different gloves. I put one of my knifes down momentarily and was told by another employee that I could get fired for doing so. My gloves fell out of my pocket at one point and I thought they were going to shut my line down because of it - probably because they were afraid it was in the food product. That's understandable, but perhaps there should be a better place to put all your items other than your pockets; thinks are going to fall out! They'll walk you off the floor and have security to take you for a drug test over any little accident - even a knick to the finger! The team leaders are twenty-somethings with very big heads! The work itself wasn't too
You have no idea what you are getting into. Somehow the Nestle reputation is a great one. The reality is quite different. Everyone is under so much pressure to succeed it kills any hope for a decent work environment. The sales goals are barely achieved by even the best at the company. Sales managers use bullying and degrading tactics on employees. Marketing looks at sales and thinks everyone is replaceable. Don't expect anyone above you to acknowledge the fact you are a human being. You have to politic yourself to get anywhere. People who have great ideas and work hard are often replaced because they say too much. Managers who put in 10+ years are replaced at a blink of an eye with little to no explanation. The "Nestle Professional Way" is to keep your mouth shut and do your job, especially when Switzerland is breathing down your neck. Lots of foreign managers with great international experience who can't understand the American market has lead to a degraded portfolio of products that don't make any sense. Everyday is a mob of angry Swiss accents that can't figure out why instant coffee isn't selling in premium markets in the US. You will never get anything done or corrected on time, this company is a bureaucratic nightmare. Company regularly hires people with years of experience but with no motivation and it's absolutely killing them. Don't let them lie to you in an interview, they will tell you about how they are going to be a billion dollar segment of Nestle with record gr
If you can handle putting your employer at higher priority than your family time, this job is for you.
A good company to work for overall. Good pay depending on structure of route sales rep is positioned into. They can train for Class B license. Very well organized. An ever adapting company, changes with the demand of customers and profit margins vs cost. They demand every employee to be safe and they train employees to report anyone being unsafe. A company that focuses on the broader scope of workers life vs work balance. My opinion is the company has a lot of room for improvement with management, as performance is overlooked by tenure, which may be frustrating for newer employees. But overall it is a healthy environment if you can match your lifestyle to 3am - 3pm work schedule daily, and don't mind driving 100+ miles depending on route given to employee. The system they use to operate daily is very well planned out, with a few wrinkles that can't be avoided. My reason for leaving is of personal reasons as it cost me more to drive 200 miles a day, and only be compensated for half the gas mileage, I was going in debt due to this factor, as the company has been forced to reallocate the routes based on tenure every two years but this last time it was one year and they confirmed this would be the last reallocation, which caused me to be concerned about my salary vs wear and tear on my car and life with family. 200 miles a day is 2.5 hours on-top of 12 hours a day. So I decided this was not matching my lifestyle anymore, and was costing me more than benefiting me. The biggest cha
Good place to work at but, management is difficult
Going to work was always a typical day, working there was very enjoyable and fun learning how to bake cookies, cookie cakes and other desserts. The things that I learned while I was there were that if I already have cookies at front on display I at least need to have one or two trays ready with cookies if the business is really busy and that I have to sanitize everything that that I will be using. when I was working at nestle toll house café I really dint enjoy the management because she would treat us a different way and she would talk in her language and mention our name. My supervisor always told me that we were never allowed to use any other language except English.
The work culture that I have about the work place never heard anything good about it. I always heard that she would disrespect every employee that worked in that place. When I had a while working there I understood what my co-worker were talking about. The hardest part about the job was that my co-workers would leave super early from work even though we had the same schedule because I had to do everything.
Sometime I would be super busy at school finishing some work and I would call my boss to tell her that wouldn't be able to make her come in and she would tell me to come in at 9 when it was really late and it would take me 2hours to get to Hawthorne city and the second hardest part about the job was that she would scream at me, spy on me like if I was some type of criminal.
The enjoyable part about
Prosdiscounts
Consno respect you need to talk to her straight up to stop disrespecting
Fast paced, and challenging but productive workplace with an excellent enviornment
Supervised the day-to-day activities of warehouse operations, including daily work assignments, monitored productivity, accuracy, and KPIs, and identified areas for improvement to meet or exceed Division standards and objectives
Supervised the day-to-day activities of transportation operations (routed overload cuts, personnel utilization, on-time performance, off-load rate, driver debriefing, etc.) to ensure established standards were met or exceeded
Supervised assigned staff, provided training to ensure compliance with safety rules and regulations, established standards for quality, sanitation, security, and safety
Monitored fleet operations, including loading and dispatch times, vehicle and equipment utilization reports, and vehicle safety and maintenance to ensure compliance with GSF and DOT standards
Distributed daily productivity reports and monitored daily receiving to ensure compliance with such product related issues as QIP testing, storage, HACCP food quality standards, and new product slotting
Monitored staffing levels, including the weekly casual associates, warehouse clerks, and warehouse supervisors work schedules, the overseeing of warehouse supervisors, leads, clerks, and relieving warehouse and transportation supervisors and leads, clerks as required, to ensure that required work tasks were achieved
Performed other related and assigned duties as necessary, such conducted interviews, etc.
ProsGreat Team
ConsLack of support on behalf of upper management team
Productive workplace but no better future for my family
I normally work 8 hours per week. From Sunday to Sunday. I get one weakened off. Shift worker. I am processing a plant. Sometimes we have shortage of workers then I must act as team leader. I have very good social skills where I have to work with workers from different races. The majority workers is black which make it very difficult for us to work together.(we the minority) I am also part of our workers union where I have to deal with workers issues and (shop-steward). I love my job and the people that I work with very much but financially I am not coping. I have 2 children who are still at school and a wife who are also working in able for as to make a living. My dream as a worker is to see that everyone are treated fairly. I am a very good negotiator,very calm and sometimes it can be very frustrating to the workers because I do not believe in strikes or fights. There is always a way and a manner to communicate so that each party can be satisfied at the end of the day. I am very good at my job as Process Controller but are willing to do any job. Even if I have to start at the bottom, I am willing to learn just as long as my salary will be much better as current. The hardest part of the job is if you have workers who do not want to work as a team. My motto is, if you do not want to do it, I will rather do it myself. I am not a drinker nor a smoker, and are of excellent health. Sometimes people are laughing at me when I mob the floors.!. I believe in this which
ProsThree quarter lunch break
ConsTwo 15 minutes tea breaks, Health Care on the Site
I found Nestle to be overly hierarchical and regimented for my taste. I felt I was never given space to 'kick the tires and light the fires' and really show my stuff there.
There were constant meetings at Nestle, and a very regimented structure to them, all of which lent a superficial air of organization, but in truth, that covered up a massively disorganized and struggling department. There was no manual for new hires detailing all of the amazingly complex security, systems, procedures, etc. Trying to actually get something done was often incredibly frustrating. Just getting a password on a machine to do development work on required layers and layers of cryptic online forms (that no one knew how to fill out!) to be filled in, emails to be sent.
In addition, the fact that all analysis is done by one individual, to a very specific level of detail, then handed to a developer to code seemed highly inefficient to me because the analyst had done so much detailed work, they may have just as well have written the program.
I am very self-directed and creative when given a task, and Nestle was not a good fit for that kind of personality.
There was also a lot of 'dead weight' at Nestle - people who'd been there forever who jealously guarded their turf, but weren't very skilled, and didn't work very hard.
All in all, the most dysfunctional place I've worked since I worked for the Navy (Navy Resale Services) in the 80's, and like the navy, a massive bureaucratic insti
Misleading job poster about "potential overtime." Good place to work. Good people.
Honestly, the job is easy. You just need to have a good positive attitude, because the job can be boring at times. Your experience also heavily depends on the line you work at. For example some lines have you rotating through 5-6 tasks every 20-30 minutes, which is awesome because you don't get bored and the day goes by much quicker. Whereas if you're on ice cream sandwiches the entirety of your day you will stand there and load sandwiches into a chute with nothing else. It helps having good coworkers who are easy to talk to.
People here are generally really nice and positive. You kind of have to be to grind through any factory job I guess. I have social anxiety at times which is diminishing thank goodness and feel very accepted nonetheless. I never felt someone being rude to me because I'm a seasonal.
The job ad said "with the potential of overtime." This is very misleading. The job pays $15.5 an hour which is manageable if you have your debt paid off and live with your parents and don't have to work through anything unusual or atypical. Financing anything like that with this salary can be tough. The one caveat though is the potential of overtime. If you get even one day of overtime per week it makes your life so much easier, especially for me. It makes all the difference. Currently I am living with my parents again after school ended and have a very toxic home environment that's not good for my health but would struggle moving out without a day of ot a week. Also n
Nestle while a great ethical corporation, has issues in the London location. While I was working as a production worker (packing), the job started out smoothly for the first 4 months. Pay was competitive, work was easy, environment was clean and safe. However, I was soon saw the dark side of the work culture as the production season was slowing down. During March, almost the majority of non- hired on/ non full time workers, were put on the night shift permanently. This was due to very few to no full workers wanting to work the night shift. While this is normal for any kind of factory work, this continued for 2 months and there were was no other shift rotation for the seasonal workers ( continental shift ect). The night shifts featured disrespectful management, full time workers often berated and used profanity for little to no reason as there was a toxic culture against seasonals. Full timers openly disrespected new-comers for no reason, any mistake on machinery by operators was always attributed to seasonals and blame was always shifted to seasonals. During this time management would call in a full working crew during the night shift for all lines, despite many of the lines only running for 30 minutes to an hour during the night. When production was finished the night shift managers would use take seasonal workers "out of rotation", taking them off the lines and asking them to stand around, as they were not permitted to go home without pay or even clean or touch machinery.
ProsFree icecream/ cheap staff store, easy work
ConsToxic full timers. union dues without union benefits
I have recently left my full-time job due to personal circumstances and I am currently looking for part-time work. I am applying for the above position as I believe I possess the skills and experience that can be transferred to this role.
I was employed as a Territorial Sales Executive for Reach, working on the Nestle Food & Beverage account for over 2 years, working hard in B2B sales and marketing to ensure I achieved my individual KPI’s and team targets by building up good rapports with clients, sharing best practice with team colleagues and overcoming objections when speaking to business owners. As a valued member of the team, I was chosen to be the Super User (first point of contact for computer support) for the Visicom program we utilised on our tablets. I also mentored new staff around the country as part of their initiation and frequently headed conference calls in my manager’s absence.
As a member of Cabin Crew for Thomson Airways for over ten years, I had to meet the very high standards of customer service, first aid and security set by the airlines, and this involved both receiving and assisting in the delivery of staff training. I carefully dealt with large volumes of cash in various denominations in a confined space, whilst multi-tasking and surrounded by a busy team. This could not have been done without a sense of humour!
I have highly developed communication skills, essential when dealing with cultural differences from all over the world, and am
A) Typical day at work
It is difficult to describe a typical day at work, none are the same.
I'd rather talk about a classic week at work.
1) The mission of an industrial buyer is to procure raw materials plants that are under his responsibility
Every day we look at all the needs of each plant to anticipate deliveries. We communicate these needs to the operational who place orders.
2) The industrial buyer works on savings projects, cost reduction and cost optimization. For example, in connection with the plants, it is decided to reformulate a recipe to generate savings.
We contact factories every day in order to know the progress of projects. The supplier is requested. He is directly involved in the project. Industrial buyer thus connects officials factory and suppliers to advance the project.
Sometimes we have to select new suppliers. In this case, the industrial buyer makes a benchmark to identify the most reliable supplier.
3) Buyer is also responsible for driving the supplier relationship.
Every week, each key supplier is asked to share about the relationship. What are the strengths? Weaknesses? What are the areas for improvement?
It is necessary to prepare the input meeting to be as relevant as possible and do not forget anything.
4) Each raw material contract is renegotiated several times a year.
This is to review the current material prices to determine the volumes to contract and to contact each supplier to get the best price and conditions of purch
ProsAutonomy, no routine, large advantages
ConsHeavy internal process, difficult to communicate with other departments
I've been working there for some years now. started off fine then when profit margins started to decrease because of the price raise on the products they decided to lay off the older staffing and some new staffing who was considered problematic. then started to drop extra tasks on the workers who survived the layoff increasing the stress of the workers and team leads. on top of that increasing the speed of production making almost impossible to stay safe in the environment (which is key focus for Nestle), forcing drivers to keep drive faster than they can.
after that management were put on strain from the higher ups to watch for any and everything not much praise given when the "grunts" discover problems and either fixes it or try to get it fixed by someone else.
warehouse management is no better. there is a new manager there who does not support the material handlers at all. barely see this person out on the floor checking on their underlings. and will only talk to you if you do anything wrong being severe or petty and make you beg to keep your job before letting you go back to it.
there is one or two "good" managers there but the rest just push and push for A.I. the ones that push dont care to help 95% of the time, if your palletizer is down because of bad products coming to it causing crashes.
you constantly have to be watching your shoulder because even some of the "grunts" will tell the manager on you if you were found doing something that seems to be unsaf
Excelente compañerismo pero mala ubicacion y oficina
Trabajar en Nestle fue una experiencia que para mi fue bastante unica ya que fue la primera empresa en la cual di soporte bilingue en ingles a usuarios de jamaica y mas, el soporte era orientado a toda latinoamerica y centro america.
Ningun problema con compañeros de trabajo, todos eran abiertos de tema, personas con cultura y bastante abiertos de tema, por lo que era facil establecer amistad con ellos y trabajar en equipo era un agrado. Esto mismo se aplicaba a la jefatura la cual tenia reglas muy solidas de seguridad, trato al usuario y buena administracion. A la vez los supervisores eran bastante flexibles cuando un empleado necesitaba ayuda o un momento libre para hacer algo importante.
Un dia normal era ayudar via remoto a todos los usuarios de Nestle en cualquier problema que estos tubiesen con el area informatica. En general se presentaban problemas de herramientas Office, Windows y Hardware pero habian bastantes programas y plataformas que utilizaba Nestle las cuales era necesario entregar soporte.
Las complicaciones de la empresa eran mas que nada la poca preparacion que esta le entregaba a los empleados para dar soporte a herramientas que por lo general usaba solamente Nestle (tenian su propia plataforma por ejemplo) Pero esto se presento en mi caso donde la capacitacion fue muy corta debido a la urgencia de personal de tecnicos. A menudo cometi errores que pudieron haberse evitado si la capacitacion hubiese durado mas de 1 semana. Creo que otro problema es
ProsBuen ambiente laboral
ConsPlanes de capacitacion y preparacion, ubicacion.
Field Manager
Since I was promoted to the manager position last year, there has been a sharp increase in sales—particularly over the last two quarters. Our conversion rate hasn’t dipped below 70 percent, and we’ve met segment goals in each department 80 percent of the time, which is the highest percentage in our region.
These statistics are all the result of a personalization strategy I have brought to this store. We’re not just selling a product; we’re selling an idea. And, ultimately, we’re selling to human beings who demand a certain level of service for the price they are paying. Exceptional customer service comes from exceptional employee training, which each of our sale associate must pass in order to continue working with us. This is to ensure unwavering standards across the board. Our service needs to be more than just great—it needs to be consistently great.
Specifically, associates are expected to remember the names of clients and their purchases. If a client has a penchant for a particular brand of handbag, our associates are expected to call said customer to inform him/her when the next handbag will be released and when he/she can pre-order it. If a man is purchasing a piece of jewelry for his wife’s birthday, associates are expected to remind him that he purchased the very same piece of jewelry for Valentine’s Day. These are expectations that did not exist before I was promoted.
Another change I implemented was the creation of the merchandise position
To put it in a nutshell Nestlé waters is built on bulls**t.
They did a survey and 40% of the staff said they don't want to be there, so the atmosphere is just horrible to work in. The staff turnover is massive so as you can imagine the ones that do stay are so depressed and angry because they're constantly training new staff that are just going to leave as soon as they wake up to the bulls**t anyway. Alot of the staff are actually really nice people and genuinely good workers once you get to know them but because of the consistent staff turnover they seem really rude and arrogant at first as they're so used to staff just coming and going.
The company put rules in place like - you have to wear there uniform which they wash for you (for hygiene reasons) BUT don't even provide you a uniform.... I never had one full set of uniform in the 8 months I was there. Some of the staff wear uniform that hasn't been washed for months and I mean 2 - 3 months, that's no exaggeration. This isn't one or two members of staff, it's alot of them. The worst part is, you can't even wear your own clean clothes, you have to wear the uniform that they don't provide you.
Another problem I noticed is the staff have alot of items going missing, for example people would go to get changed at the end of there shift to find out there trainers have been robbed or something like that.
All the equipment is either broke or constantly under repair. For example flt batteries last half the time they should becau
ProsNot bad salary but definitely not worth losing your sanity over.
ConsPoor management. Horrible atmosphere.
Questions And Answers about Nestlé
What is the interview process like at Nestlé?
Asked Mar 16, 2016
Very laid back but also very professional
Answered May 7, 2019
I was hired through a staffing agency, it took almost a month before I heard that I've gotten the job.
Answered Feb 28, 2019
How are the working hours at Nestlé?
Asked Jun 10, 2016
8-10 working hours
Answered Jun 12, 2019
8 hour is completely right in one day
Answered Nov 10, 2018
On average, how many hours do you work a day at Nestlé?
Asked Nov 23, 2016
8 hours a day. 40-48 hours a week.
Answered Mar 24, 2019
On one week 45 hour working is right
Answered Nov 10, 2018
What is the best part of working at Nestlé?
Asked Nov 30, 2019
There wasn't any
Answered Aug 26, 2020
The benefits and the pride to make part of the largest food and beverage company of the world.
Answered Mar 14, 2020
What questions did they ask during your interview at Nestlé?
