Mars FAQ

Pros

Good pay good benefits and free chocolate

Cons

Standing up 11 hours of the day or night

Advice to Management

Give people split shifts

Pros

- Flexible hours - Good benefits package - Great vacation package and also allow employees to purchase additional vacation time.

Cons

- Currently not a healthy work life balance.

Pros

Everyone gets to know each other because everyone spends so much time together. You are almost guaranteed to make a best friend at work. The benefits speak for itself great coverage and pay rate. Everyone really is super personal and nice.

Cons

The leadership at the site i specifically worked at ...the ball was always getting dropped and it got blamed on someone instead of taken responsibility for. Team leads are allowed to miss essentially as much as needed while leaving a team to run production with out a manager. There is a stand in team member who takes their place but they do not get paid near enough to do a lot of managerial duties

Advice to Management

Dont take so much advantage of your good direct reports to make up the difference for someone who slacks or hasnt had enough training yet.

Pros

Great parental leave benefits, opportunities for advancement and development if willing to put in the work and commitment, broad business spending multiple types of products with unlimited opportunities globally, great flexibility for working parents, consistent investment within the factories, Significant paid time off which increases with years of service

Cons

manufacturing sites are based in rural areas and business hubs are in major cities, rotating shifts, if not mobile advancement opportunities are very limited, work-life balance can be difficult depending on role & responsibilities

Pros

Great benefits with 6% 401k match and pension

Cons

The culture needs improvement. They are very supporting of their long term employees but new associates are not set up to succeed. The management wants to take no accountable to help teach and coach new hires to be successful.

Advice to Management

Look at your management team - they are not as nice and supportive to new hires as they say. They know how to play the game to look good while not helping their team.