Competent Emp- Well Intentioned Culture-Risk Averse - Research and Development General Mills Employee Review

3.0
6 Jun 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Highly competent co-workers at all levels. 2. Excellent training and learning opportunities 3. Ability to mobilize huge amounts of resources 4. Admirable focus on personal/environmental safety and the safety of their products.

Cons

1. Management slow to embrace change (the very change they ask everyone to implement) 2. Company senior leadership unwilling to share sacrifice 3. Business teams very reluctant to take calculated risks and slow to market.

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5.0
17 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance, many people fully remote or hybrid

Cons

Layoffs are often and if you don’t move quickly you get caught up in them

4.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance, pay, company culture

Cons

Slow to adopt innovation, bends to the whims of the shareholders

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