Mars Employee Reviews

What is the best part of working at the company?The culture is rooted in family origination of this company. Expect collaboration, alignment, care and interesting tasks. Very good for junior roles and initial career growth. You do not know much and enjoy the façade. What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Things are done through relationships, not through the processes. It's challenging to find the decision maker. At Mars, bosses do not like to talk about problems and challenge status quo. They love optimistic folks who just go and do things without giving it much thought.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Big family with all pluses and minuses of it. Make sure you have good relationships with your boss or the boss of your boss.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Back to back VCs, presentations, multiple attempts to approve a project, talking to associates at lunch and eating free chocolates.

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Business based on fatty food, fossil fuel based chewing gum and poor quality pet food

Marketing Head (Former Employee) - Waltham - 27 October 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Pay and opportunity to work with talented peopleWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company? management only looking after themselvesWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Used to be great not so good anymoreWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Keep head down and pretend you are engaged

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Research Assistant (Current Employee) - Waltham - 29 September 2023

Fabulous working environment Just a lot of cliques Mars itself a great company to work for, it is just the Waltham research site that seems to have these issues Development based on weaknesses rather than strengths

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Official response from Mars

2 October 2023

We’re grateful for your feedback. All comments – both positive and negative – are taken seriously by our team, and are used to improve the Associate experience. We value our Associates immensely, and want to ensure that everyone feels supported, both professionally and personally. If there are any particular recommendations you’d like to make, please get in touch with your former People and Organization team. We look forward to hearing from you, and wish you every success.

All about the people

Marketing Executive (Current Employee) - London South East, Greater London - 18 September 2023

Amazingly supportive business with a huge amount of opportunities across geographies and functions Huge focus on personal development A place to build a long term career

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Better years ago

Carer animals (Current Employee) - Waltham - 26 August 2023

Not a bad place if you love working with animals. However sometimes quite frustrating when your not listened to. Jobs are changing all the time even when it's not needed

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Based on 34 survey responses

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Productive and fun workplace

Researcher (Former Employee) - Lincoln, Lincolnshire - 23 August 2023

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Base Operator (Former Employee) - Plymouth, Devon - 21 August 2023

Awful place to work management are clueless since mars took over it’s become a joke of a place to work, can’t get a contract they always offer it to people outside the factory not inside, 9 times out of time the people they hire are useless but if there cv is good they hire them anyway bunch of paper pushers the lot of them

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Interesting

Unit specialist (Current Employee) - Waltham - 19 August 2023

It’s an interesting place to work but management need to listen more to the needs of the staff. In terms of rota’s and staff and home life balance for mental health

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excited teaser and then painful movie

Technical Manager (Former Employee) - UK - 21 June 2023

It is all about management and how you can survive from grinding teeth of the company. Please be aware: this is a big family company and all leaders tries to keep them happy (which is quite normal)!It doesn't matter how good you are on your role or job, it relies on how much happy you keep people around you and they call it collaboration. Everybody smiles at you but say a lot of critics from your back to your line manager instead of talking to you.If your line manager loves micromanagement, then welcome to the chaos! Your motivation starts to go down, you begin to lack on your performance, your mental health begins to limp because of hearing only negative things from your manager...etc. At the end, you decide to leave. If you think that HR helps you on that, please ignore this idea. They wouldn't care: before, during or after the situation. As a result, please keep yourself away or try to get to know your manager immediately.

Pros

colleagues can become friends, sincerity in lower management levels, WFH (3 days), travels

Cons

Long hours, non-ending "urgent" emails / calls, micromanagement

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Great employer

Learning & Development Co-ordinator (Former Employee) - Slough, Berkshire - 14 June 2023

Superb pay, friendly colleagues. I left some time ago, following maternity leave, and still miss it. The work environment is great, with excellent staff benefits (and free chocolate!)

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Warehouse, Factory Operative (Former Employee) - Melton Mowbray - 8 June 2023

In all my years that I have worked for the company and went well above and beyond my job spec, I would say that it is not a good place to work overall! I had a very bad experience/ lack of training and pressure to go the extra mile constantly, while dont want to pay extra wages. Not equal opportunities, school mates and friends of friends are preferred as its a very close knitted environment. They keep recruit and recruit and nobody stays in the end, which I always found it strange

Pros

good breaks

Cons

none

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Great place to work with full of Opportunities

Senior FP&A analyst UK market (Former Employee) - Slough - 31 May 2023

Enjoyed my time at Mars , good culture and fast paced, lots of opportunities in the organization nationally and glob I had the opportunity working with few seniors managers which gave me a great exposure to their Departments

Pros

Flexible

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Lovely people, not so great company

Unit Specialist (Former Employee) - united kingdom - 3 May 2023

Lovely staff to work with but poorly managed and always understaffed. The shift patterns are awful and may end up working 7 days in a row, 2 days off, back for another 7. Jobs are often outsourced to an agency that will only offer temporary contracts even if you've been working at Mars for 6 years. This halts life and cannot rent or get a mortgage and Mars reluctant to help here.

Pros

people

Cons

poor contracts

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Official response from Mars

15 May 2023

We’re grateful for your feedback. Please rest assured that all comments – both positive and negative – are taken seriously by our team, and are used to improve the Associate experience. We value our Associates immensely, and want to ensure that everyone feels supported, both professionally and personally. If there are any particular recommendations you’d like to make, please get in touch with your former People and Organization team. We look forward to hearing from you, and wish you every success.

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Process Operator (Current Employee) - Birstall - 6 April 2023

Good company and good staff on my shift management okay most of the time need to be more open with staff other wise a pretty good bunch. plenty of time off in-between shifts once you get used to working days then nights 4 and 5 days at a time is a okay.Not such a high turnover of staff a lot of people been there over 15 yrs plenty of experience and people who have been being there not so long too.

Pros

Good work life balance, staff shop and other discounts too

Cons

Long hrs 60 on the 5 shift and 48 hrs on the 4 shift

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Good Workplace Overall

Lead Technician (Current Employee) - Birstall, West Yorkshire - 24 January 2023

Decent workplace overall. Supportive staff. Good training providedManagers are helpful in terms of mapping out a structure typical workday can be varied

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Always ask for help

Quality Controller and correction (Former Employee) - MPRP - 8 January 2023

Good job. Important job saving the company money. Coming to an end for the moment every day different. Checking pouches changing labels checking tins. Green binning. Co pack.

Pros

Clean work where every day.

Cons

Old machines

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Fun workplace with great culture

Assistant Manager (Former Employee) - Bristol - 25 October 2022

Woefully inexperienced and corrupt officers are promoted into woefully inexperienced and corrupt managers. The recruitment process is appalling and training inadequate. Helpful manager in the office and cleaning.

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Awful

Document Editor (Former Employee) - Winnersh Triangle - 6 October 2022

I worked at Mars Winnersh Triangle. Was like being at school. No talking etc. They put free chocolate out every day. that was probably the best thing about it. Avoid

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Would not recommend to anyone

Shift Leader (Former Employee) - King's Lynn, Norfolk - 13 September 2022

The staff on shift are brilliant to work with, the senior team and the way the business is run is utterly appalling. They have no consideration for the staff and have proven to be liars, jeopardising people's life's and future.

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Generally a nice place to work

Unit Specialist (Current Employee) - Melton Mowbray - 29 August 2022

There are some negatives as with any job but working with the animals is so rewarding and every day seeing improvements. Management are not always supportive but your team always is. I’d recommend applying if you want to work with animals as if nothing else it’s a place to go from here. But you will get so much from this job as well as life long friends

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Too many chiefs, not enough indians

Production Operative (Former Employee) - King's Lynn, Norfolk - 19 August 2022

First 6 months were fantastic, great leaders and office staff really knew what they were doing. 2 years later and shift changes causing loss of pay in a world were everything is more expensive, to a company that made silly profit. No leaders, just 10 managers that don't understand a single role but demand they know how to use the machinery. High expectations to once reached are the bar higher so you can't exceed ever. Honestly loved it at the beginning because it was unique, but the sparks left and ignorance took over and destroyed the place.

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