Dr Pepper Snapple Group Reviews

Pros

It is a good environment, it has opportunity to learn and has continuous training.

Cons

It is very vertical career development seems slow.

Pros

Amazing brands with big budgets, gets you experience you can't touch at some companies and keeps this place going in spite of itself. Nice coworkers you would want to have over for dinner, even if they aren't driven to win. If you are happy with the status quo, work/life balance is a distinct possibility (i.e. not worried about promotions or career trajectory). Location of the company is great, with great cost of living and nice schools in the area.

Cons

Senior leadership has decided lack of vision and strategic business intelligence. They fail to communicate/align on any priorities (is "Be the best beverages company in the Americas" supposed to tell me anything?), choosing rather to fly around the country on the private jet to needless social events (that the company probably sponsors only for their benefit). Strong slant toward the carbonated beverages businesses, yet there is no focus on innovation in an environment where consumers want to drink less soda. Different functions run their business in isolation of each other, primarily Sales, National Accounts, Category Management, Company Operations, Marketing. NOT a marketing or consumer led company in the CPG landscape, translating to limited, short term thinking, and only tactics with no teeth. The most intelligent and motivated functions - R&D and Marketing - have no clout in the company, leading to quick burnout and talent turnover. Sales organizations - National Accounts, Field Sales, Shopper Marketing - and the internal company bottler operations are a severe inhibitor of future growth due to an overwhelming talent, motivation, and intelligence disparity (it hurts to the core to be belittled by people who can't form complete sentences in an e-mail, nor understand the difference between English composition complexities such as "its" and "it's"). At this stage, any consumer or product led initiative would be a moot push because nobody here would be able to sell it to retailers/customers, put it on their to do list, or even understand it for that matter. This makes change or any sustainable growth next to impossible. Company leaders are painfully risk averse, and only seek to protect their small empires and current way of being. Extremely flat organization that seemingly only gets flatter - if you are driven to succeed by climbing the corporate ladder, there's nowhere to go unless you've got 20 years to burn.

Advice to Senior Management

Those ACTION behaviors that you are so fond of - it's time to start adhering to some of those yourselves. Leadership isn't something relegated to the worker minions to figure out. Talk to each other, set the direction of the company, and communicate. Lead by example. Make decisions, and set priorities. This all starts at the top.

Pros

Growing company, great benefits, jobs all over the country, overtime, flexible schedule if needed,

Cons

The pay is lower compared to other companies. The Soda industry is nonstop go which may be tough for some to make it in. Not a company that values education, a lot of the managers never went to college where as pepsi and coke have college educated Managers. Getting a promotion can be hard, you have to be local in most cases. Also getting the "internal" job site is almost impossible for any lower level employee. Most employee in decent positions come from other companies. There is no pensions or great retirement, only 401k....So get your experience and go work for a better Company.

Advice to Senior Management

Start getting ways to recognize all your employee's, that action thing is BS...Need better 360 reviews. Also have a internal site that works. If someone wants a promotion it shouldn't be hard to get a interview or noticed....Start you grow your talent from within, some employees do have a passion for the company.

Pros

Good growth and career progression opportunities, nice perks, fun products. Many opportunities to gain experience in different areas of the business.

Cons

Poor management/leadership communication, people and resources are stretched too thin, work/life balance not a priority, sales results valued above integrity.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your people, listen to subordinates and respect ideas enough to make changes. Admit mistakes and correct them rather than trying to cover your losses. Support the team by providing adequate resources (including hiring additional head count where needed to drive the business). Focus on career development in a way that ensures success (step-by-step progression).

Pros

Great benefits (health, dental, vision and 401k)
Company Car
Good people that have been around awhile
A Company you really have to mess up at several times to be terminated

Cons

Upper management not really concerned about customers wants; just #'s and displays
Antiquated Co. not really in-tune with technology
A service company not concerned with service

Advice to Senior Management

Take a really good look @ what your competition is doing and try to keep up
Get out into the field and ask some Questions

Pros

- use supply methodologies taught in business school like six sigma, lean manufacturing and RCI
- trusted with a project that will have an impact on the business
- friendly work environment, everyone is willing to help
- executive management is very personable
- was not micromanaged

Cons

- not many young people
- did not get to travel

Advice to Senior Management

- continue to grow the internship program

Pros

- Big Brands, Big Budgets
- Decent Pay
- Solid Processes (if they are adhered to)
- Lots of fluidity among the workforce

Cons

- Increasingly siloed departments reduces responsibility for delivering plans
- Little interest in innovation
- Kill or be killed attitude among some colleagues leads to an intensely political climate

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management is overcompensated while many workforce reductions have taken place. The balance need to be redressed.

Pros

Great people! Great brands! Work is what you make of it in a seemingly typical corporate HQ office environment. Most people around here have been here for a long time. Very stable.

Cons

The stability of the organization has a downside of allowing people to become entrenched in their jobs and processes. Process and Technological improvement takes some encouragement (and patience.) It also results in fewer opportunities for career advancement, so getting that promotion becomes quite competitive.

Advice to Senior Management

Since going public, any ownership in the results of the company as a whole has been eliminated for all positions below management. (Stock purchase plans, bonuses, etc., are gone) In light of this fact, policies should be revised to encourage more collaboration, or everyone will eventually be so focused on achieving their personal performance measures that the performance of the company as a whole will suffer. Remember- we can accomplish more together than we can individually.

Pros

Plenty of Overtime, Not rocket science, Drive a motorized pallet jack, kind of looks like a forklift only you are standing, part of a Union

Cons

Long hours, 6 days a week

Advice to Senior Management

Thanks for the generous compensation, truly appreciate it.

Pros

Benefits are excellent. Time off is good but if you dont' have enough employees you can't take your vacation.

Cons

Pay is minimal at best compared to the amount of incompetent people you have to deal with. Management team has no clue of how to run things or deliver service to its customer base. Management also shows little respect for employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay better and show a little bit more respect for the employees that actually keep this compnay afloat.