Archer Daniels Midland Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"A good place to work if you don't mind heavy lifting."

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Great pay and job security."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Hard on the body."

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Constantly innovating"

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

"Enjoy the interview"

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Required a stronger commitment to customer satisfaction"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the voices in the marketplace more"

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Security - ADM is a solid company that is over 100 years old with 30,000 employees...I never saw anyone get laid off"

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Too big of a company and very stiff -- reminds you of a company stuck int he 1960's structurally and management"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to be flexible with employees, find ways to comp them when you ask for 60 hour weeks."

"Hard to rate since I worked for them as the result of an company purchase."

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Vast resources of the company."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Too impersonal"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"They helped pay for my college degree. I liked the hourly people that I worked with because they knew the process well."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"I had a MBA and I could not get a management position with ADM. Other employees with no college degree would get management position before I would. It was to much of a buddy system there and that is the reason that I left."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communication at the facility needs to be worked on. Your people will allways be your best assets and you need to listen to everyone at the facolity"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"it was ok"

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

"keep at it ADM takes a while to get in the door"

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"The people are not too friendly to get along with."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More interaction between departments"

"Don't work for ADM."

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"I learned how best to run a production staff without proper support from maintenance, process engineering, or project engineering, with inadequate control systems on a shoe-string budget. It is possible to do so but it takes a lot of work."

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

"Stress your experience with projects. They like to have production engineers who can do projects simultaneously."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"80+ weeks, a good-ol boy management system. They used to say that smart people left after a few years; turnover among product managers was over 20% in my first 6 months. If they like you, you might get a chance to stay; if not, they'll make your days a nightmare. They used to have a saying that ADM stood for another dead man because of their poor safety record. They claim to have improved but from what I saw, they filled a lot of file cabinets with safety inspections and recommendations. A contractor later told me that they dump the files when filled. I turned them into OSHA on several violations shortly after leaving. I was not being vindicative, though it brought some satisfaction, it was because of the serious dangers there, including the risk of dust explosions. I learned a few things while there but it was not worth the pain and suffering. Oh, by the way, the typical work hours there are 6:30 am to 7 pm. Mostly, they only hire fresh engineers. They wake up and quit a few years later."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It would not do any good. They are the survivors. You either fit in at ADM or they flush you out rather quickly. Young engineers adapt the best. Besides, they know what is wrong at ADM and have accepted it."

"Avoid at all cost!"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"The challenge."

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

"If you must take the job, be prepared for 60+ weeks. Plan for how you will go to the doctor, get your car repaired, etc.. They won't give you any time for that and they will make you feel guilty taking time off for anything."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"Opressive management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Leave project engineering to project engineers --- don't dump it on the production engineers. Start investing in an MOC and continuous improvement plan."

"ADM was a great company to work for."

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"The pay is good. The job definantely keep me busy and on my toes."

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

"Be ready to work many overtime and weekends. Don't get sick becasue there aren't many sick days."

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"There is no room for advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reward the hardworkers; that's the easiest way to ensure that the good work will continue."

"user friendly"

What do you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"I gained some work experience in my field and it was a adequate environment"

What don't you like about working at Archer Daniels Midland?

"There werent many advancement opportunities"

"Stable industry."

"ADM is a good place to work, but if you want to learn and use the latest technologies and skills seek elsewhere."

"Standardize, test chocolate product, record and compile test result, establish COA to ship with product."

"Want more from an employer."