Strong employee culture can't compensate for poor pay and benefits
Pros
Employee culture, relationship building, paid parental leave, 4 weeks of vacation time for all employees.
Cons
Overall compensation is subpar, at best. Hourly rates start only in the low 20 dollar-an-hour range for full-time employees and they have eliminated their "grow-in" system of guaranteed annual wage increases, instead relying on corporate produced performance reviews that are nonsensical. So earning potential is entirely capped within hourly positions, no matter how skilled you are as an operator or how much technical knowledge you possess. Healthcare benefits are an absolute joke and comparable to plans you would find on Healthcare.gov. You will basically be living paycheck-to-paycheck and hoping that you don't incur medical expenses because, oh boy, you're in for a wild ride until you meet your deductible every year. Mead Johnson is owned by Reckitt Benckiser who has stripped nearly every employee benefit down to the bone. A company that used to be a local staple of dedicated lifelong employees that worked from young-adulthood into retirement has instead become a bottom-feeding assembly line atmosphere. Employees used to have pensions to look forward to upon retirement, now they must contribute to their 401k when they are already not making ends meet to have any retirement savings at all. Overall, they rely on dedicated employees not leaving because the jobs overall are not very physically demanding (mentally they are very technical however) out of a sense of comfort and because they still somehow believe they have fostered a workplace culture worth staying for. This couldn't be further from the truth and while the people at MJN in Evansville are a special group, they exist as that in spite of Mead Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser. All of them deserve better than what this company seems willing to provide for them. We make formula for babies and the only people that seem to take this mandate seriously are on the hourly level. The nature of our core business alone neccessitates better treatment of your employees in order to produce quality infant formula that is free of any defect or microbial growth. Absent of that better treatment, I fear their hiring standards will continue to plummet in order to fill open vacancies and to keep the place operational. Meanwhile, already failing standards of cleanliness wll suffer even more until they are ultimately responsible for the worst possible outcome in that we hurt a baby because of substandard product.