Nestlé reviews

Working in what they still see as the 'admin' team means that you are very often treated like the help and never given a promotion or the pay rise that you deserve. They are SO SO SO distracted with nonsense like Six Sigma / LEAN that you can't get your job done. You can't just say that there is a problem, you have to measure weeks and weeks of data before you get the go-ahead to fix the issue. As for health and safety, I 100% agree that this is important however they have allowed it to take over. You MUST walk up and down the stairs holding a handrail or you'll get told off (and reported), you can't take even one step whilst talking on your MOBILE phone or you'll get told off, there are stickers on the stair telling you what side to walk up and to 'hold the handrail'. They have weekly meetings (MOR's) that drain the life out of you. Anytime I have spoken to an old Nestle employee they always say how happy they are to be away from that utter time wasting nonsense. They think they are helping to avoid accidents when in fact they are pushing away perfectly good employees.

No progression - literally stuck doing the same job for years. Management pretend to care about your development, however do not encourage or train you in anything that might mean you can leave. Horrendous training - usually have to just train yourself after watching one person once. Too much focus on pathetic 'pillars' and NCE - total waste of time that achieves precisely nothing yet takes up so much time. Awful organisation, no communication between departments means some days you're running around trying to sort a million things out. Time spent on non--productive activities such as 45min DOR's is another example. Lack of senior and experienced staff means that on some days, there is nobody trained/knows enough about certain things. AWFUL management, particularly within the Microbiology Team; the worst most useless manager that you could ever imagine. No reward or thanks given to the people giving 110% effort and sacrifice to Nestle, reward only given to undeserving people or none at all. Senior management have no clue how to run a group of people, the laboratory has been run into the ground due to poor decisions made by management and this has made the NQAC a terrible place to work. Nestle produce is absolutely disgusting. The pay is terrible for all the work you do.