Annie's Reviews

I don't even understand why there is an Annie's review since there is no Annie's, there's just General Mills. They will try to tell you that they are different, that they are leading a change within the rest of General Mills but that's all talk. You don't have to take my word as its simple to prove. If you're interviewing there just ask who leads your function and their background and you'll see that all of them came from General Mills whether you're in Finance, Sales, Marketing, or Operations it doesn't matter. Mills got rid of all the Annie's Leaders long ago so it’s pretty hard to argue that you're different when the people in charge have worked at Mills for 20+ years and have no idea what Annie’s was like prior to being bought. This is just a pit stop on their Mills career before they go off to whatever is next so they have no desire to challenge the status quo, they are the status quo! Should just call this place General Mills West.

Management, especially in sales, is sub-par at best. It's a culture of fire drills, usually with the time and effort put into those exercises leading to nothing. Lot's of redundancies in what the sales team is asked to do, which leads to a tremendous amount of wasted effort and very little selling. Patchwork of systems is antiquated and only leads to increased frustrations. Amazing that growth of +20% year over year is achieved, which should be substantially more with better leadership.