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Ferrara Candy Company

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Extremely Toxic Company with Horrible Leadership - Director Ferrara Candy Company Employee Review

2.0
15 Jun 2022
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Pros

You work with candy. Good pay.

Cons

Leadership provides no direction or strategy. Everything is always a fire drill. People are expected to work long hours and horrible work life balance. Executives are obsessed with consultants and often hire them into positions that they are not qualified for (always enamored with the next shiny object but it never lasts). Very bad job listening or soliciting feedback from employees. Heavily skewed towards sales and marketing, so operations, finance and IT are often left cleaning up the mess that sales / marketing create.

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Ferrara Candy Company Response
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Employee satisfaction is a top priority, and we’re sorry this wasn’t demonstrated to you. Setting our team members up for success starts with clear direction, communication and training. We're sorry to hear your experience was not satisfactory. Our leadership team is working hard behind the scenes to communicate the future of Ferrara to all levels. They are ensuring we provide proper training and resources to prevent situations like this in the future.

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Cons

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