PepsiCo reviews

1. Sycophancy Culture : Most of the senior management is from Genpact and they brought all the bad habits with them . Sycophancy culture reigns supreme and if you are not a yes man , please stay away. Top leadership is busy promoting themselves on LinkedIn with absolute no empathy for employees who are working countless midnight hours for the organization. 2. Dance to the top : If you are good in dancing/singing, this is the next India's got talent stage for you ! You can dance your way to the top ( yes, you heard it right , not by awesome work but participating in self serving events by leaders who often indulge in self appraisal and mutual admiration society). Your year end appraisal will get impacted if you do not shake a leg or do not indulge in sycophancy. 3. Work life balance is a myth and often you would be treated as a low cost offshore center to do garbage work for US / Sector team. Top Leadership is clueless as they only know how to operate a low cost BPO. 4. Health insurance : Lesser said the better. There is voluntary parental insurance which every employee is hounded to avail by paying way more than what market offers. 5. Fake designations : This is is the best part. PepsiCo offers Senior manager designation to candidates with 8 + years of experience . The day you join, you realize you have been taken for ride as your outlook designation is that of an Analyst ( yes, it gets even better). Most of the time, you would be in individual contributor role with no room for growth . This inflated designations are for LinkedIn and your actual designation is what is being reflected in Outlook. 6. Most of recruits are from second tier firms with very average skillsets and typical "lick your way to the top "attitude guys. If you are smart, from a top consulting or an audit firm, then pls avoid this place.

-All the downsides of large corporations apply here. Sometimes asked to do elaborate things because some leader is coming to visit, or because some leader bought a bag of product that looked broken (even if all other product data indicates no issue). Most middle management is driven by what will look good on their end of year review, not by what actually makes sense for the business or people. -As engineers and scientist we are asked to do ALL kinds of things outside of our job title. I spend maybe 15% of my time on engineering and process/product development; the rest is spent on project planning, arranging shipping of product and ingredients, purchase orders, booking travel, and filling in for technicians who either don't exist or are too busy. Managers don't realize that they had dedicated people to do these tasks when they were in our shoes and still expect all of it to get done. -Pay and raises are abysmal compared to other players in the industry. People are dropping like flies for this reason. -Leaving R&D is viewed as a huge stigma. Don't expect cross-functional opportunities.