Horrible management - Anonymous employee Cargill Employee Review

1.0
26 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice office - spacious, well equipped, nice mountain view - Nice coworkers - this is a place where you can meet many young and really smart people. Unfortunately many decide to change the company rather quickly

Cons

- Gross salary calculated as base salary+language bonus. So if you take paid days off or if you get sick leave you are paid based on your base salary, without the bonus. And your language bonus is 1/3 of your overall pay. - The duties described during the job interviews are barely the same things you are responsible for later on. I was hired as HR specialist. During my second day of work my supervisor told me I am going to be HR call center agent, I will do payroll, I will document current processes and optimize them WHILE preforming the call center, payroll and HR administration (contracts, new hires and terminations) daily routine. - Management is probably the worst I have ever seen. Supervisors and managers have literally no clue what their teams are doing. They don't know essential details of your workload and whenever someone asks them for help there is a "calm down, don't worry speech" and then 0 help and interest in what is going on. - No work-life balance. The motto is "we don't encourage overtime, but if you have a deadline you must be on time". The worst part is that there are many understaffed teams so you have to do overtime constantly if you want to meet deadlines. In my first 2 months in the company I saw 2 people break down into tears in the office. Both were given enormous amount of work for long periods of time. On the other hand, there are some teams who barely have anything to do all day.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Pay is good, especially on holidays! you get days off during the week and you work every other weekend

Cons

The schedule is hard, 12 hour days for 1 month then 12 hour nights then switch back. the environment is tough, the work load is heavy. not always the support you need to help you. favoritism, Management can be difficult, sink or swim type of culture, The testing is nearly impossible to get through. In the end you can do a great job in learning the job, if they don't want you, you will be replaced!

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