Loved working at CLIF before the buyout - Brand Manager Clif Bar Employee Review

3.0
2 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The company culture at CLIF was incredible before the buyout from Mondelez. Then it turned into a huge company full of corporate bs and fake niceties. It all feels so disingenuous. I had a great work/life balance during my time at CLIF but mostly due to my incredible manager. I can't say that was the norm for every team in the company.

Cons

Mondelez had horrible business ethics and bad processes for a large company. But then, ironically, I was forced to watch so many training videos on "proper business ethics" during my time with them. I couldn't even pay my invoices for different vendors because the process was so bad... not because they didn't have the money to pay it. I hit a dead end every time I was given someone's name to help me remedy the problem. It was embarrassing and took so long to resolve that I told the vendors to go ahead and file lawsuits. Hopefully this was just a messy thing that happened because of the integration and is not the norm for them.

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5.0
3 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great mentorship and uniquely hospitable work environment.

Cons

Challenging transitionary time with its recent acquisition. I'm sure that the opportunities afforded by this acquisition have been exciting.

3.0
27 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People, Brand, Culture were great prior to the acquisition by Mondelez

Cons

So many layoffs and underperformance post-acquisition, company lost its soul

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