Hostess Brands Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Salary and benefits were good supervises good to work with

Cons – Too much corporate control plant manager could run the plant as he sees fit everything had to be okay from corporate too much red tape

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your workers like human beings not like numbers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good money if your willing to work for it

Cons – 55-60 hour work weeks that start around 3am

Advice to Senior Management – ditch the unions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – It was a good company to work for. I was free to do my job with very little supervision or guidance, unless needed.

Cons – The company is in the process of liquidating

Advice to Senior Management – None

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands full-time

Pros – Great Team at the Plant level.

Cons – Poor Leadership at the top

Advice to Senior Management – Go run a Bagel shop

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time

Pros – Great brands!!! The company has the right pieces to be a success!!

Cons – The DSM job is over worked, too many items on their plate

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more people so DSMs are able to sell and do more to impact the bottom line.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – right now you get 40 hrs and overtime and paid vacations

Cons – they took our pension and is in bankruptcy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Hostess Brands has benefits and are unionized, so you are protected. Also, they have an adequate pension plan for the time being.

Cons – Hostess Brands has filed bankruptcy AGAIN. It is a company with a lot of potential, but it is so poorly managed that it's being driven into the ground. Also, the job stability is no longer existent.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your workers instead of using them. We're the ones who know what the company needs anyway.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – decent money, Get off work at a decent hour

Cons – upper management doesnt know anything, mismanagement of funds, treat employee's like crap. Keep taking more from the Route guys, we are already some of the lowest paid.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn what your doing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hostess Brands as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – The pay is decent. From what I heard there's plenty of overtime.

Cons – Some of the trainers I had were nice but others acted as if you should already know how to do the job. They scheduled me to work in certain areas, but would move me to another area instead, sometimes they moved me before I even got started training and during training instead of letting the trainee stay on one task to learn it, they switched around which made it confusing. Some employees acted like they resented my being there. Some people were nice, but I could tell they all had their "clicks" and I didn't know if I would ever be accepted into one of them. A lot of times, I had to ask what to do because everyone would just run about doing their thing and leaving me in the dark. I got to work a total of six days through a temp agency before they decided they didn't want me back due to performance. I never got a fair chance to learn to do any of the jobs or to increase my speed. My first trainer told me (on my last day) that it was a slave driving company and they expected a lot, but not to worry, I would get better. I've never worked any where before that gave you one week of choppy, inconsistent, crash course training and expected you to perform like you'd been working there for six months to a year at the end of the week. It was "hell week" for me and although I would've liked to stay, mostly because of the pay, I'm glad it's over. A week full of back aches, little to no sleep because of being at work at 4 am and working 10 hr shifts, working with some people who wouldn't even speak to me (although a few were nice). There was one person who I'll miss. My first trainer, along with the two other people who work with her on a daily basis, they were genuinely nice to me and tried to train me properly without expecting me to perform miracles.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop better training methods with specific people to be trainers who aren't so arrogant they forget that they had to learn how to do the job too. I really don't think this advice or review will be taken seriously. I don't think this company really cares about their employees. They just care about the money.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very good pay for unskilled labor. Good benefits.

Cons – Inept management which has lead to our 2 bk's in 8 years. Lack of quality leadership at the top.

Advice to Senior Management – Close all the thrift stores. Close and consolidate bakeries. Cut bakery management in half. Eliminate varieties that do not sell. Get rid of anything owned by Hostess Brands that is not either specifically Hostess or Wonder Bread.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend