PepsiCo reviews

Not good if you have many years of experience. PepsiCo really endorses fresh College/University Grads into the system with NO Experience and quickly pushes them to Management Roles. It is not uncommon that "Campus Recruits" will have a year or less experience in a Sales role and be moved to a management position, while employees with 5-10 years are stuck without advancement. Management and HR do not communicate with employees. Job posting/opening are given special treatment to the certain "Chosen ones" in the company and then they tell you that you can apply on the Pepsi Career page and go through the application process knowing full well that the jobs are already handed out. You are only allowed to make so much money as a Sales Rep (PCR). They will change your route every year and along with that they will change your commission structure so you are being punished for doing what you are paid to do...Sell Product. A very interesting work schedule as you usually work Tue-Sat. The only problem with that schedule is that Saturdays are the busiest days of the week in a Grocery Store and Mangers don't have the time to talk with you for the next weeks upcoming sales. Many of times the TSM's(Managers) will fill out your progress report without you being present thus handing reports that you are not aware of, just so they can "cross it off the to-do-list". When questioned about, you get typical shrug off and "on to the next one attitude. Store Audits are never done between Managers an Employees. Management tries and spins the Employee in sight surveys to make it seem like they listen to the employees suggestions, but it goes on deaf ears. Senior Management are just there for the stepping stone for their next career advancement and don't change anything for the better...if anything they change company atmosphere to a more negative cycle. This was a great company to work for years back, but with all the changes in compensation, Management and Corporate structure it is has turned to be just awful. When at Corporate get togethers when we get to see other Sales Reps from different areas, the same questions always are asked between colleagues: Why are these Reps so happy and the Toronto Reps so miserable?....

The politics has become stifling. Constant re-orgs don't allow any time to adapt to new playing field. Senior management has lost its attention span. You can work yourself to death expecting compensation or advancement, but those opportunities are evaporating rapidly. The promotions are based on who you know rather than what you know or how hard you work and you'll get lame excuses when you ask why. Hiring contractors is more important than retaining high performers and having actual continuity. The whole atmosphere has become very demotivational this year especially. Infighting between groups is also on the rise probably because after the recent round of re-orgs nobody knows who should do what any longer and its seen as an opportunity for empire building. The corporate interest in being seen as positive part of the community has employees out doing charity work on Pepsi's behalf rather than doing their real job and making things work inside the company. The focus on management buzzword fads du jour has really gotten silly lately too. They don't actually pay attention to what those buzzwords should mean, they just love to spout them and sound all corporate positive.