ADM reviews about "layoff"

Layoffs, back to back, just a number in their bucket

Mediocre treatment of employees at best, they do the bare minimum to stay under the radar. Nepotism is rampant in the workplace, you have to be good friends or family with management to move up. If they don’t like you for any reason, they’ll “find” ways to get rid of you. You have to fake it to make it here which has turned into a very toxic work environment. No profit sharing. No bonuses for hourly employees. Meeting and exceeding production goals is rewarded with pizza parties when the company is profitting billions. Silly performance reviews with subjects like “clock watching” but they don’t want you clocking in early, staying late or taking too long a break and want you going to break at specific times which force you to keep an eye on the clock. An easy way for them to give you bad reviews to have documentation of “poor work performance” which hurt your chances for promotion and make it easier to fire you if the need arises for them. If you complain about anything they will investigate themselves much like a corrupt police department and find they did nothing wrong. They will retaliate tactfully as to not get in trouble. Department of Labor won’t help as going up against a multi billion dollar corporation isn’t worth their time. You are not rewarded for going above and beyond, in fact it is often ridiculed and looked down upon. They want you to almost be a robot. Annual pay increases are meager, only enough to cover increased medical premiums, nothing more for inflation and or cost of living. Literally you will get a 2.5% annual pay increase and your premium increases 2.5%.

Layoffs happen every few years

No bonus, management, layoffs, workload

Frequent Layoffs and no long term plan for growth

Recurrent waves of layoffs derive in loss of valuable human capital

Ridiculous hours for salary work

Poor budgeting in past and quick to layoffs to fix

- Very restrictive schedule - the first 7 to 10 business days of each month are generally off limits with regard to taking vacation days, so that leaves the second half of the month to take vacations. Certain holidays that fall at the beginning of the month are typically work days for accounting (New years day, July 4th, and MLK is a workday even though it's mid-month it's during a busy period) - 15 PTO days a year is low considering the pace of the work is quite fast and there are often times that overtime is needed to meet business needs, but there is no comp time for that overtime - As of January 2024, all departments in Decatur are supposed to be in office 5 days a week (prior to January, ADM utilized a hybrid schedule). There was no corporate wide dissemination of any official policy, and some departments such as HR are allowed a few work from home days a week. Accounting did not allow any work from home days unless there was a non-routine reason such as an unexpected illness. Any questions regarding the change is considered inappropriate. Some employees are afforded more flexibility than others. Certain employees are permitted to work fully remote due to moving during the Covid-19 Pandemic. - Very old school with regards to culture, very formal attitudes towards manager/employee dynamic. - Hostility from commercial management - HR is old school and does not accept employee concerns directly (they have to go through the manager) - Annual raises were uncompetitive (3% for FY2023) - Salary market adjustments were given to entry level accountants that were substantially more than Analysts annual raises. Due to this, entry level accountants right out of college are making about $63,000 but accounting analysts that have worked at ADM for 3-4 years are making only a few thousand more than that (depends on the promotion date) - No sick days (you can work from home if you're sick but still expected to work) - Antiquated accounting systems - challenging work environment and constant issues to fix - Executives are in Chicago and they rarely visit Decatur - Promotions in accounting past accounting analyst are extremely competitive. Accounting supervisor positions rarely open and when they do everyone applies but they tend to hire externally - Layoffs in 2020-2022, lots of knowledge left the company - With full return to office, parking near the office building can be a challenge, and so you have to park across the street. It's a decent walk and so you have to get to the office 10-15 minutes early to park, walk, and then log in on time. This just adds to your daily commute. There is also considerable traffic leaving each day which again adds 10 minutes. so factor this in to your commute time before working here. - Trains block the area on a consistent basis adding more time to the commute - NAHQ is in an industrial complex, so often times there are industrial smells coming from the plants and there's a lot of pollutants in the area coming from the plants - Decatur is nice, the City Center is much nicer to work in than the NAHQ. NAHQ is very isolated so you can't really leave for your lunch break since everything is far away.