Cargill reviews

Company expresses a desire to be diverse, innovative, "value added," safe, etc, but has NO CLUE what this looks like...lags in every area. Why? ...in the words of a Navy admiral, "organizational arrogance." Many people in leadership have spent their entire careers in Cargill and "don't know what they don't know." Anyone who is creative and has worked for a truly innovative company(and I have) will be gobsmacked by how backwards this company is on so many fronts, unless you are lucky enough to find the rare pockets of true operational excellence that do exist, ie Corn Milling. Managers from the "outside" would get together in private and commiserate ..."I cannot believe what I am seeing." The sad part is that many Cargillians have no idea how backwards they really are because they have never looked outside their walls-classic small-town thinking. Some leaders say they welcome innovation, but try to be critical of the "old way of doing things" and they will find a way to push you out. Do your homework well if considering a job. If you are a hard charger wanting to come in and "make a difference," you are taking a big risk of being very disappointed and/or having your legs cut off beneath you. I speak from experience. The locations I am familiar with were EXTREMELY conservative, white Bread, passive-aggressive cultures. Concerning racial diversity...I am white and I would NOT want to be a minority working in many Cargill locations. ...facilities where the entire workforce of >1000 is almost entirely minority and the leadership team is a bunch of conservative, middle-aged, white guys from the farm who haven't learned a lick of Spanish.

- 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.