Sargento Reviews

Poor progression speed. Overly analytical/low risk tolerance. Low empowerment. Poor sustainability. Inauthentic brand; doesn’t make cheese and sells processed cheese. Strong bias towards on-site work requires living in small/rural towns or face a long commute.

Sargento is going through a "midlife crisis" right now. They are growing into a larger force in the marketplace and are struggling with how to strategically do that without losing the sense of who they 'want to be', but in doing so, they are not realizing who they are turning into. The politics in the manufacturing department have increased steadily for the past four years or so (right around the time a long tenured VP retired). Folks then started to jockey for positions and it has turned into a winner-takes-no-prisoners atmosphere in management. The manufacturing folks are left holding the bag, supervisors are setup to fail and bad managers get promoted (all while good managers are stuck in the middle). Good supervisors don't stick around long enough and bad supervisors are around too long. When we finally got a really good manager who doesn't play the political game, the company (rightfully) promoted them and the jockeying started all over again. We are going though major changes right now as an organization and there does not seem to have been much input from the production side as not much is going well with these changes. Too often folks are picked to lead projects that have no clue on what the impact of the project will be and does not even have the decency to ask for input from those it will affect because they want all the credit if it goes well but will point the finger at production if things don't go well. All this creates infighting among 'established' production employees and 'new' production employees. If you are not part of the click then you are left to defend yourself