SHIPPER (Former Employee) – Kitchener, ON – 11 December 2017
I personally really liked working at Weston Foods. It was a decent job with decent people. My only complaint is how they pay there employees. I don't think temporary workers should get paid the same or more than the actual employees. I feel it is because of their wages that they have an inability to keep employees.
applicant (Former Employee) – Cobourg, ON – 2 April 2018
OMG ... the stench! Well I guess a plus would be lost appetite & weight!
Scheduled for interview, got a number to call at the door, but no one answered the in-house door-phone nor the cell number I'd been given for someone to open and let us in. 5 employees came & went on their breaks and said "yep 😃" when we told them - so respect is obviously low on the priority list.
Once finally inside, the smell was even worse, turned my stomach! 3 guys were almost done filling out a wad of paperwork, we were given the same to do; they'd been there for 2 hours! There were wayyy too many too-personal questions before an actual hire, incl. drivers license number! And signing an ok for someone else to drive me to a job site ... ?
We just looked at eachother and said "are you ok with all this?" after 3 pages out of 25+ ... and we left. A good thing, we made a new friend.
We'd have been hired by a temp company, paid less than company/factory employees (by $.50), but would also be the first to be let go during a cut-back. Been there, done that.
Manager (Former Employee) – Mississauga, ON – 23 January 2018
This is the worst company I have ever worked for. Higher management does not care about the little people. They under pay their employees and over work them. Their culture is to curse and use obscene language towards their employees. No amount of money is worth working here, had to work without office supplies and bring my own to work while management is having expensive lunches. This company needs to review how their company is run by those they put in charge. Wake up!
Team Lead (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 3 December 2017
Not a good company to work with only are about production, and workers are pushed to the limit to achieve targets.The machine is old and as such lots of downtime.
Financial Analyst (Current Employee) – Mississauga, ON – 9 November 2017
cost control is the key many talented people to work with large company benefit and salary are below average heavy workload somtimes stressful management team is good
Plant Manager (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 19 September 2017
Responsible to ensure all staff is in compliance with Health and Safety policies. Monitoring daily exception reports and always looking for contentious improvement to increase productivity and efficiency.
Super high energy and very passionate person, that quantifies all and drives a culture of Greatness. Root cause and corrective action motivated.
Maintenance Supervisor (Former Employee) – Kitchener, ON – 12 July 2017
Terrible company to work for , treat their employees like slaves , very rude and disrespectful and the working conditions in Kitchener are terible , noisy , hot and messed up shifts . You do not want to work in management as they will use you and not compensate you , as for this position - who wants to work every Friday night for the rest of your career at straight time with not support
Cons
Long hours with no compensation, hot, dirty, unappreciated
its really very good experience to work here i enjoyed it with loving employees and very good environment plus giving good benifits. i would like to rec-command it.
Procurement and IT Summer Student (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 14 June 2017
The offices are very comfortable and the people are extremely nice. The workplace culture is great and you receive free bread! I learned about product procurement.
Senior Systems Engineer / Architect (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 9 March 2017
I had the opportunity to join this business as a technical consultant, for a few weeks, to identify the failing condition of their SAN & assist in the implementation of a new SAN. Upon completion of the SAN implementation I then was requested to build out a software testing environment and deploy software packaging technology using, newly acquired software and the Microsoft VMM environment which is still in use today.
QA (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 17 January 2017
Not a great place to excel in career. The company is good. However, it is not the company but the culture which makes the difference. The people makes the work culture worst at Weston
Senior Programming Analyst (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 8 July 2016
Nice place to work. Lot of time spending administration rather than actual work. No growth opportunity. Nice place to start your career. But to move further in career one must leave this place and search other opportunity
A/P Clerk (Former Employee) – Mississauga, ON – 7 February 2015
Very friendly athmosphere. Understanding people to work with. I enjoyed working at Weston Foods Meadowvale Office. I work with passion and a willingness to learn more and grow with the Company to which opportunity I am looking forward to in the future.
Pros
Understanding and friendly folk
Cons
Too short to observe any cons, which I doubt there will be ! I have always loved what I am given to do
Electrician/Mechanic Technician (Current Employee) – North York, ON – 8 December 2014
1.do run time preventive maintenance work orders and responded calls from production 2.familiarized the production line and trouble shooting 3.the management they are people oriented 4.friendly and shared what they know 5.there is no hardest part in the job if there is a team work among the workers 6.when all workers share there knowledge regarding how to solve a problem
Major contributor to my learning of analying and managing of 3 major accounts
FINANCIAL ANALYST (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 12 September 2014
Weston Foods finance department has provided me with much valued account management skills. It has taught me some extensive excel techniques such as V-looks up, pivot table reporting, and macro's management and usage.
Junior IT Analyst (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 3 March 2014
I was so excited to work at Weston Foods before I got the job. The skills I have learned at Weston foods are: Technical, Management, Customer service, co-operative and more.