Vantaggi
Lots of opportunities if you are mobile and willing to live in rural locations. There are some people who bleed Cargill green and were a blast to work with.
Svantaggi
Company expresses a desire to be diverse, innovative, "value added," safe, etc, but has NO CLUE what this looks like...lags in every area. Why? ...in the words of a Navy admiral, "organizational arrogance." Many people in leadership have spent their entire careers in Cargill and "don't know what they don't know." Anyone who is creative and has worked for a truly innovative company(and I have) will be gobsmacked by how backwards this company is on so many fronts, unless you are lucky enough to find the rare pockets of true operational excellence that do exist, ie Corn Milling. Managers from the "outside" would get together in private and commiserate ..."I cannot believe what I am seeing." The sad part is that many Cargillians have no idea how backwards they really are because they have never looked outside their walls-classic small-town thinking. Some leaders say they welcome innovation, but try to be critical of the "old way of doing things" and they will find a way to push you out. Do your homework well if considering a job. If you are a hard charger wanting to come in and "make a difference," you are taking a big risk of being very disappointed and/or having your legs cut off beneath you. I speak from experience. The locations I am familiar with were EXTREMELY conservative, white Bread, passive-aggressive cultures. Concerning racial diversity...I am white and I would NOT want to be a minority working in many Cargill locations. ...facilities where the entire workforce of >1000 is almost entirely minority and the leadership team is a bunch of conservative, middle-aged, white guys from the farm who haven't learned a lick of Spanish.