The Coca-Cola Company – “Great company name, very political, good old boy senior management style”

Pros

Can't beat having Coke on your resume, good training and opportunities to learn

Cons

Management driven more by politics and amassing power bases than business concerns, bureaucratic, laborious approval processes. Women, in particular, have a difficult time moving up management ranks. They tend to hire a slew of young MBA men and women, provide the better men best opportunities and lots of promotions. Most smarter women tend to eventually drift to other organizations. Then they hire a new slew of junior ones,so, there's always a crowd of women at the lower - middle management levels. The few women that do get higher management roles are in support roles (HR, Legal) or non-financial control positons. It's just a "good old boy" promotion system.

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace diversity as much as you claim to be. Get rid of the old guard politicians.