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Dole Food Company

Is this your company?

Not at all what I was expecting. A complete disappointment. Will never view this brand the same way again. - Anonymous employee Dole Food Company Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Quite literally none, other than being paid. I've had part-time jobs be of more use to me than this place.

Cons

Required to be in-office. Their "office politics" mainly consisted of meaningless gossip, negligence, and a culture breeding hostility and resentment. If you have decent industry experience, talent or drive of any kind, please, for the love of God, run elsewhere. These people will try to pick and pull you apart for the sake of not doing their own jobs. I have never in my life been more gaslit and tossed around than I have by the people working at this company. I wish I had known this before because I would’ve never signed that job offer. For the first time in my entire career, I had to file a complaint with HR for sexual harassment and discrimination. Within the first month of my being there, no less. From the moment I started, I felt a slight uneasiness and unwelcome, as if they were unhappy with me being hired, before even trying to get to know me as a human being. Coworkers would whisper, looking directly at me, purposely trying to make me uncomfortable. Coworkers would speak outwardly about me, as if I was incapable of hearing them. Insulting both my intelligence and me as a human being. A fellow employee would stand up by their desk -- nearly everyday -- and would outwardly make comments on my outfits, my face, my makeup, the way I walked -- literally anything, out loud, for the whole room to hear. Without ever coming up to me and speaking a word to my face. Absolutely disgusting. Multiple higher-ups heard this, and did absolutely nothing but shoot me guilty glances, that practically screamed: "please don't sue us." They made me feel like I deserved to be treated that way. It seemed like they enjoyed poking and prodding me around. I felt completely defiled and humiliated. It left me in a state of shock most days. HR conducted an “investigation” but despite this, improvements were scarce. I have never been on the receiving end of such blatant and causeless disrespect as I did here. I was left out of countless meetings. I sat on my own, being whispered about and treated like a zoo animal on display. I have never seen such a dark side to humanity before. HR and management violated ADA guidelines, and both retaliated against me for filing for (very necessary) ADA accommodations due to the mistreatment I had been facing. I was suddenly placed on a PIP, began having opportunities taken away from me (that had once been promised), and began getting excluded more so than I had before. That level of disdain and neglect is all too normalized throughout Dole. For most of my time here, I was being harassed -- sexually, verbally, and indirectly. I was extremely uncomfortable most days in that office. I had no clue it was possible for a company of this size to be so content with such widespread harassment of a new employee. It breaks my heart how a brand I was once so fond of could completely mutilate me for no good reason.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We get free fruits everyday

Cons

I get sick of the free fruits

2.0
Jun 20, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Standard 6% dollar for dollar 401k match - PTO okay - Management overworked but tolerable - This position should be a good stepping stone into a better job

Cons

- Work day is 8-5 and you only get paid for those hours but it’s expected that you stay later than that nearly every day to help others finish - Promised certain holidays off before accepting the job offer. Later found out that actually wasn’t true. - Weekend work required (you don’t get paid for the overtime, or at all for it) - Very disorganized. Almost everything is still done by hand/on paper. Systems are VERY dated. - Discriminatory work setting. Coworkers openly and loudly have racist and hateful conversations. Very inappropriate crude/sexual conversations happen frequently. - Expected to learn every other role in addition to your actual job title so you can take over someone else’s job if they’re out (you don’t get paid additional for the increasing expectations) - Health insurance is HORRENDOUS - Pay is VERY low for the variety of roles you’re expected to do, and much lower than the industry standard for this type of role - Office politics very bad. Coworker can’t figure out how to do their job after being there for 3 years. This sets everyone else behind, but instead of firing them, everyone else has to take on that person’s workload. Often times rude as well. - Wasn’t told we were paid in arrears until after I started working there and had signed an apartment lease. Had to wait 3 weeks before getting a single paycheck.

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