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7 reviews
1.0
10 Nov 2022

Work here if you want to learn how NOT to run a business

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Colleagues below management level were wonderful and fun to work with. There were a lot of wildly intelligent people to learn from. I also lucked out and got one of the few managers that were kind and knowledgeable.

Cons

Leadership team has no idea how to run a business, they are all PhD's with no industry experience and I've never seen executives that are completely clueless as to how to properly run a business. The company is very unorganized and departments operate isolated from each other. There is no clear direction during product development whereas in normal food companies marketing should give clear objectives based on what food characteristics consumers want. Any direction that is given comes from the leadership team (who some will say has some questionable preferences), feedback is either simply just good/bad or "not firm enough". Leadership seems to want a rock for every product... Most projects aren't even feasible short-term, they should be focused on fixing the illogical operations of current products before investing in long-term. Products in the lab are amazing but the company fails to execute scale-up and launched products get ruined because 1. commercialization team is not very involved during development so a lot of learnings get lost 2. Products are not designed properly to be scaleable because most employees have no industry experience and are hired straight out of college (not their fault as there is no proper guidance from leadership). Teams do not collaborate due to "confidentiality" so you end up repeating tests that you know another team has done which wastes time, resources, and money. Oh and they're so worried about confidentiality because there is such a high turnover rate and people leave every single week. Workload is completely unbalanced, some people were working overtime and some people did absolutely no work (I was one of the people that did no work). If you offered to help someone else, you would get denied so you couldn't even give yourself work if you wanted. And on a final note, pay is below market value so go work somewhere else that pays you your worth and you'll also learn more.

5.0
13 Nov 2021

GM

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Pros

What Beyond Meat doing is great and right things .to be one of them very proud of it ,and work together with colleague and client to create better world .

Cons

in China we are just beginning ,so we need more patinate and effort to cultivate the market

4.0
14 Nov 2021
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Pros

-We are generally flat management and pay attention to the subjective initiative of everyone -We have the right value which fit my value to let me be proud to be a part of Beyond Meat and work here. -Colleagues are great!

Cons

-Sometimes, Instead of communication and discussion, we tend to avoid questions.

2.0
13 Oct 2022

Poor Management

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Pros

Colleague are knowledgeable and friendly, learn a lot during employment

Cons

Management does not seem to know what they are doing, lack of direction

1.0
3 Nov 2022
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Pros

I met a lot of dynamic, intelligent, and positive people at this company - many of whom put together some amazing products and were driven by the important company mission. That was very inspiring, but most of them got treated very poorly by management.

Cons

Where to start? -Company has been around for 10+ years, yet still acts like a start up in the worst ways (long hours, low compensation, not as much expertise due to everyone being hired directly out of college, horrible paper trail and tons of inefficiency, siloed information, poor financial management) -Directors are incredibly rude and will decide if they don't like you from Day 1. Surveillance style - certain directors get upset if you have a doctors appointment or anything that could delay your work. They will literally watch you and make sure you don't leave any earlier to exercise some kind of power trip. -Everything was due yesterday, until they leave you in the dark about your product timeline, leaving you with no clear direction and always receiving the blame -Quality feedback is very rare - no performance reviews except for maybe one that occurs at the end of the year, no bonuses. during tastings, directors will just say "your product is bad", and not give you any direction to help fix it. They barely even give detailed critiques for you to go off of. -Relying on investor's income - the new lab space is not meant for lab work, it's meant to look nice so investors will walk by and give us more money. The ovens are smaller, there's not even a dish room, which many of us rely on for keeping a clean and functional lab space. A company cannot rely on investors forever. -CEO is obsessed with being a celebrity and not creating a functional product or company - always wants to rub elbows with Lakers players and other celebrities, surrounded by Yes Men and complained about not receiving a bonus in 2020 when many of us were struggling. -People with Masters degrees in relevant fields being paid an hourly wage that is barely more than minimum wage -People with Ph.D's not able to utilize their research and getting pigeonholed into a formulation position where they are only batching ingredients and doing menial work -High turnover (~50% of people) -No concern for food safety or overall workflow organization -Everything is incredibly siloed - once your product is approved, you will never see it again, nor will you be told what happens to it. A lot of essential information is siloed and will leave you confused about your project timeline and certain characteristics like costs, how commercialization will scale something up, marketing perspective, etc. -No congratulations or perks for completing a difficult project - I saw some really amazing projects get released and there wasn't even a "Thank you" from leadership for the people who actually put the tireless work in to completing it -Not a single member of upper management has worked in a food company, so they will set up impossible timelines that will not work for the scientific innovation they desire, and then blame you for not getting it done faster AND better. There's little to no understanding or care to understand the real time it takes for a brand new food product to get made, commercialized, and sent to retailers. -If you are being mistreated and report something to HR, you're toast. -This is not a place to practice positive negotiation skills, you must bow to the whim of the directors and do everything they ask, even if it seems unfeasible. And if you can't deliver it, then that's your problem. At this point I would not work here if you are applying right now. There are no signs of the internal issues changing anytime soon, and I suspect they will only get worse from here.

1.0
29 Nov 2023

Stay away

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Pros

Colleagues are kind and collaborative

Cons

Managers are only profit driven and do not care about your interests or expertise. Their sustainable mission goals are not reflected in their in-house attitudes; doesn’t matter how much plastic or resources they waste as long as they can make a product that makes them money. Wages suck

5.0
12 Nov 2021
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I am expericing a great time at here with full of passion colleagues and Management. With strong willingness to help reports imporve and grow leader. Appreciate everything I got here and feeling will have great future here.

Cons

To our people should get more closer alignment, more efficient for international works.

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