Working at Kraft Foods in Northfield, IL: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Northfield, IL Area

"A great company to work with who values fair work environment and ethics and provides ground to mature and grow employees professionally and financially."

What do you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"In truth, precious little these days. The employees are overworked and under-appreciated. This is true in the last two years. The culture has become just miserable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay away from this company until the end of 2013 after new management has taken over and initiated their own culture, then do your homework to see how the culture has changed. It's like poison right now. Even the most cheerful employees are giving up and just ticking off the days."

What don't you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"Senior Management. A leader on the executive team was overheard saying that all of the administrators on the North Shore are worthless. Another member of the executive team was overheard saying that administrators don't know anything. For all administrators to be so wretched, they either do a lousy job hiring or a lousy job developing them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would focus on creating the best product possible and forget about the shareholder. If you care about your consumer and giving them a quality product, the shareholder value will follow. I would develop employees - all employees, and I would not put leaders in charge when they only know how to manage process and not people. I would hold senior management accountable for their spending. I would curate a culture of development and innovation and being an employer of choice would matter. I would not allow prima donna syndrome to infiltrate senior management and employees would vote on their raises."

"Managed the accounting aspects of facility management projects."

What do you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"Kraft headquarters is an awesome facility. I liked learning a different aspect of project accounting which was facility management."

What don't you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"Being a contractor at Kraft and an employer to Grubb & Ellis made pleasing both sides difficult as communication between upper management seemed to constantly involve a power struggle of some sort."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create better lines of communication between upper management of both companies and hold monthly meetings with mid-management staff."

What do you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"My co-workers and the atmosphere was conducive for performance."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"The distance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Open honest communication."

"Great long-term employer, suburban location."

What do you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"Very collegial atmosphere/people, 2-year rotation program, interesting projects, comfortable offices with lots of amenities (company store, fitness center, exterior paths, etc.)"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself! I was given an offer after asking the interviewer questions, not generically about brand strategies, but about his Peace Corps experience and motivations."

What don't you like about working at Kraft Foods?

"Inconvenient location (far suburbs, expensive, distant from metropolitan center and attractions)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More mass transportation access options, greater focus on sustainability and social responsibility (natural ingredients, healthier choices, carbon neutrality, philanthropy at corporate and employee levels, work-from-home opportunities)."