Hostess Brands Reviews

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

Pros – Always Hiring, good benefits, good guys to work with on the average

Cons – I have seen this company change drastically. I guess I am old Now, I made great money here 20 years ago. Now, things are ran by greedy, dishonest , unexperienced uppermanagement, who have NO BAKERY distribution training. This IS ASHAME FOR SURE. DM's hide behind emails and texts, never go out on the market, demanding things that they have NO CLUE about. A real Bread Man build a report with their customers. I could go on and ON , its sad. so much waste.

Advice to Senior Management – RECRUIT SOME OLDTIMERS, WHO UNDERSTAND DISTRIBUTION, this is not a soda delivivery company. GET SOME EXPERIENCE IN HERE. STOP THE GREED, STOP THE WASTE, NO WONDER YOU ALL LOOSE MONEY, GET OUT OF YOUR OFFICES AND GO CHECK OUT THE MARKET..OR IS IT TOO HOT

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 10 years

Pros – Good people to work with. The pay is fairly good. The benefits (for now) are alright. Immediate supervision is decent.

Cons – Long hours and dealing with a lot of people who maybe shouldn't have been placed in a position of authority. Second bankruptcy for the company since I've been with them. Doesn't look like we'll survive this one.

Advice to Senior Management – Get the bankruptcy situation resolved. Whichever way it goes is preferable to going months on end not knowing if the doors will be locked the next day you come in.

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

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – There is a chance that you may have lots of personal time off from work

Cons – The company is in financial turmoil, upper management is clueless, lies are abundant and the employee is not valued

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of the people who actually do the work to keep the company going

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – We have a job, average pay compared to the rest of the bakeries. The Union has been tiring to negotiate a better contract.

Cons – Working split days...I've heard all the reasons why we still have split days, that was a long time ago we need to move on , working weekends, constant shift changes, no respect to the employees, the ones that come in and do the LABOR!

Advice to Senior Management – Leave the employees pay alone, STOP! your big Company bonuses, and run the Company RIGHT!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – The pay and benefits continue to be very competitive in this industry.

Cons – The upper managements lack of communication and fairness will be the ruin of this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate and appreciate the dedication and effort put forth by ALL of your employees.

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – Used to be the best place to work in Jackson, Tn until they decided to turn against employees and blame the worker for all their problems.

Cons – Will only permute friends or family.
Very disorganized management.

Advice to Senior Management – Word better with employees and they won't fight.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – About only pro is that the company does provide good benefits.

Cons – Out of touch upper management. Lack of appreciation of field sales. Unfair/unreasonable expectations in relation to time required to perform job duties. Little to no training. Never seek feedback. Attaboys are nonexistant. Upper management and some middle management have no clue what is required to perform expected duties on a daily basis

Advice to Senior Management – Get back in touch with your people. Hop on a truck. Get up at 2am and don't get home until 5pm or later, do it for a couple of weeks, then rethink your expectations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hostess Brands

Pros – no one watching over you all day

Cons – ceo's that dont know nothing about the business

Advice to Senior Management – learn the cake and bread business before you try to make changes path to market a big waste of money

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend