Good pay and benefits, somewhat daunting culture - Anonymous employee General Mills Employee Review

3.0
13 Feb 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are good; in general, employees are not micro-managed.

Cons

If Pollyanna were a corporation, she'd be General Mills. The company does do a lot of good in the community and seems to be well-liked by many employees, but it also can be excessively self-aggrandizing. The place is a corporate version of the Stepford Wives. There are many lifers who know nothing else...the culture is *very* Minnesota Nice. Many upper-level management can be arrogant and patronizing, particularly towards employees who were at Pillsbury prior to the "merger" as it's euphemistically called here.

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Cons

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