Flowers Foods Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Growth mode; strong executive management; friendly culture; great work/life balance; good benefit options

Cons – Corporate location often does not attract the strongest candidates; slow to implement changes; outdated HR processes; bonus/increases are not based on performance

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good wages, good benefits, great people.

Cons – Schedule changes due to volume.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time for more than a year

Pros – The pay is good ,I enjoy my co workers, and the companys' culture and values are in line with my own

Cons – You work a lot of hours at times and can be a challenge to balance your personal and work life

Advice to Senior Management – I have no advice to management at this time my experience at Flowers thus far has been great.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – can someone help? should i buy my route?

Cons – heard some concerning things. help

Advice to Senior Management – ?

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time

Pros – There are no pros working for this company

Cons – In the piedmont NC area. Branch Managent and Assistant Mgmt.are either kin or best buddies. And if they have a friend who wants a job, they will start harassing a worker that they have no liking for in hopes they will quit. Their most used words are, I'm going to fire you., I'm going to write you up, Total verbal harrassment every day and hour you are on the job. Very much a imtimidating and hostile company.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to put their friendship aside that they have with the Branch Management and listen more to the workers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good potential needs time to develope

Cons – Bad managment need training and better people skills

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Flowers Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Working with the independant distributors on increasing their sales. Health care benefits are decent.

Cons – Work week for Sales Managers average 70-85 hours per week. Averaged about $12 on high hour weeks. Company cannot convince any qualified people to in essence "purchase" their own job which makes it very hard to develop a competent workforce. Moral is the worst of any company I have ever been associated with. Have sat in on many interviews where prospective distributors are told they can change to better routes if one comes open....then when one comes open they are told that changes are no longer allowed. If you have a family, personal time is virtually non-existant and career advancement to other locations is frowned upon because they have a hard time filling the management positions.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't take ideas that differ from upper managements' for increasing sales personal. Help your employees grow by assisting them when they seek promotions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods

Pros – Money. Career advancement opportunity easily

Cons – We work a ton of hot long days

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods

Pros – Freedom to complete the task at your own discretion,better pay,and the tax deductions

Cons – no benefits,must pay for your expenses(truck maintenance,gas,whatever)

Advice to Senior Management – Thats the beauty of it.I'm my own boss.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flowers Foods

Pros – Fast growing company. Some day we (R/O) might make money.

Cons – Company growing on the backs of the route owners.

Advice to Senior Management – Help the route owners before they go bankrupt, can not afford to keep up with growth of low volume accounts.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend