Cott Reviews

I worked at Cott as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Cott is an amazing company to work for, the managers really care about your personal development and career. I highly recommend working for COtt

Cons – Cott Canada is is still growing, you have to keep up with the constant change. There are many positions opening up but some openings are still contract work

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management is amazing. One of of best people I've ever worked with.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Cott

Pros – Good personal relationships with peer employees, and talented people. Reasonable work-life balance.

Cons – Everyone junior to the senior management team is paid beneath market. Even the base salaries for senior management are lower than market, but they get special perks in stock awards. The company has become more stable in recent years, but the CEO is quite miserly with expenditures. You've got to fight for pay. The HR team is not an ally for employees, and it's wise to be cautious in discussions with them.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your teams! Make careful acquisitions. People at Cott work very hard, and assume numerous responsibilities. Everyone I know does more work than they expected when they took their job. Employees deserve to be compensated fairly for that work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Cott

Pros – Flexible boss, not high stress, easy work

Cons – No room to advance, dealing with a lot of people who work from home, not a lot of contact

Advice to Senior Management – No advice

I worked at Cott

Pros – The pay is excellent for a company that lacks innovation. Many good people and some really bad HR people.

Cons – Bad systems, lots of firedrills, painful acquisition intergration, bad HR group.

Advice to Senior Management – Servant leadership.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cott

Pros – Tampa weather is the only good thing

Cons – Cott as a concept is good, but management can't see beyond their stocks

Advice to Senior Management – Fire yourselves and allow true marketers to run the company. Competing on price is not an advantage, it is a grave waiting to be filled.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cott

Pros – higher than average hourly wages, and they were constently hireing during the worst of the recession or maybe thats a con also

Cons – very little time off the new and improved medical plan is a joke you will pay a minimum of 150 dollars a week and recieve no help with doctor visits or prescription costs unless you or a dependant is near dead,hourly employees schedule is just random numbers put next to there name that includes 1 day off a week but at about an hour before quitting time on the day before it becomes updated to cause you to work, expect regular errors on your paycheck and going weeks before they finally decide to correct it. instead of punishing those who cause problems and refuse to do there jobs they get promoted. There are a lot of potentially great highly talented employees that have been kicked and walked on so much that they no longer care

Advice to Senior Management – follow the policy make an actual schedule instead of random numbers beside a persons name show people the respect that is deserved. stop saying one thing and doing the exact oposite.maybe even look at some of the other cott plants that have employees with 15 and 20 years of service and try to model ft.worth after those plants. In the past there have been some employees from those plants come in for a week to try to help resolve some of ft.worth's problems and by the end of there week here they would swear to never come back. A happy or even just content employee would be much more productive than one who is beat down/wore out and missing his family that by the way is only 10 miles away.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cott full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Challenging. The cullture is that you are available 24/7 and most people are working through their holidays to keep up. A great place for exposure to problem solving techniques.

Cons – Information is not consistant, or easy to retrieve. History has been wiped out from high turnover. There is not any possibility for advancement unlesss you are in a hub office ( Toronto/ Tampa) .

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to respect the value each person brings to the team . Being separted by geography does not allow you to steal others ideas / presentations and pretend they are not part of the team . People come to work to contribute , not constantly be put down for their efforts .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Cott full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good practice of time management, fundamental food industry lab experience and communication skills. Friendly colleague and feel achievement everyday.

Cons – Daily jobs everyday are too basic that you want to do something more challenge.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cott full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very progressive company with many opportunities for vertical mobility. Great training ground to learn lean manufacturing. Great benefits, low turnover.

Cons – The manufacturing sector of the business is mostly male dominated, which can be intimidating to some women.

Advice to Senior Management – Sweating the company assets ensure the best skills are retained and the return on investments are assured.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Cott full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people great working environment, and excellent Quality Control staff!!

Cons – Well the only cons were problems with upper management...they show no interest in the employees who did all the work for them

Advice to Senior Management – Keep in touch with your workers!! Make an effort to establish a raaport with them it goes a long wat

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company