What is the hiring process like at Frito-Lay?

Good pay. Easy hiring process. good people.

Sometimes overtime is mandatory. That has never been a problem for me, but it can be frustrating during peak season when you have a family.

Health benefits are pretty good

Geolocation time card tracking make it feel like big brother is always watching. They cycle through horrible campus hire interns turned managers, so there is always some new inexperienced person trying to make an impact but they usually burnout. They don’t hire within, they pretend they do but look around and realize everyone has been in their position for years or decades. They used to have managers for each department sales, deliveries, warehouse, merchandisers etc. but now they manage for different districts and it’s a nightmare for everyone. Your manager won’t help you because they won’t know how. They aren’t familiar with the handheld, DOT regulations, merchandise process, it’s impossible to know it all. So they usually lie a lot, I don’t blame them but it’s a mess. This job is a boring dystopia.

Personal growth opportunities with managing frontline employees. Fun Co-Workers

no work life balance; even when you're on vacation your phone will ring and you'll be sent many texts. 24/7 on call. You will get phone calls anywhere from 1:30am to 11pm and hundreds of texts in between. The company does not give you a work phone so your personal number is used and abused by hundreds of people and businesses. No frontline support from HQ leadership, 14 hour days consistently, no real timeline to promote even if you're deemed promotable. In the many years I have been with the company in the role we were never fully staffed and it was very difficult to manage. Bonuses are very difficult to achieve with little relief or help. Frontline is unmotivated and doesn't want to work, when you have bad apples that need to be let go from the company HR will always take their side and it will be a painful 3-6 month process where you as the manager does all the work and takes all the blame. Not worth the pay or time time demand unless you are single and love to work 24/7 especially during all major holidays.

Longer break time Ok pay Assigned person/GU to push out all the finished chip waste totes every hour.

Frito-Lay Plant machines in Fayetteville always break down, which puts more stress on us. The process is mostly out of control. A lot of waste and machine downtime.

Decent Pay, That is pretty much it. But it is declining fast as all other plants are catching up or exceeding their pay structure Quiting and going to another company.

The management changes every 1 - 2 years. The culture is completely toxic. If you voice your opinion or have concerns they will find a way to fire you. HR is a joke. Any concern brought forward is completely dismissed, where you are told to just go back to work and forget about it. There is no support at the local level for anything. Favoritism runs wild with job postings. They have already selected the candidate even before the posting goes on the job board. Or even if it makes the job board for that matter. Also with that being said, they will hire international students before hiring any one local to Taber or Lethbridge. There is a complete lack of celebrating Canadian holidays within the facility, but they will celebrate every other nationalities holidays with food, banners, and other activities. They put a survey out to the employees every year to see how the management is doing. If they deem it too negative they throw it out and say they can't do anything with it. They will also juggle the reviews around to make the managers they want to see advance, because they are friends. The hard working Managers that actually work with the teams on the floor who have the trust and respect of the frontline workers get penalized with the bad reviews and passed over for promotion multiple times. Safety is an absolute joke. When it comes down between what is safe and production downtime. Production wins every time. If an incident happens it is brushed to the side and they keep running.

I was matched with a mentor that was extremely helpful and answered all the questions that I had regarding the position. Mentorship was definitely the key to my success and got me the full-time offer after my internship ended. They did assist me with a relocation stipend for my internship which was a bonus since I was new to the area.

The work itself was a bit misleading as it was basically a field sales position where you go store-to-store and help unload products, talk to store execs about upcoming holidays and market trends, and be responsible for a few sales reps on their performance. It’s a great role if you want to obtain more leadership skills but was a hard pass for me since it was not as office-oriented as I had hoped.