Pepsi Bottling Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, and good mangers.

Cons

May feel over worked and under payed at times

Advice to Senior Management

Managers are doing great.

Pros

Good pay, Great Benefits, Good advancement opportunities, stable fortune 100 company. At my location they are family oriented, work to live, not live to work.

Cons

A thankless job, if you are doing a great job you are doing what you should be. Any mistakes made are usually sent out on emails with everyone in upper management. Environment is cut throat and you are pinned against each department. Senior management needs to change the atmosphere.

Advice to Senior Management

Processes need to change to create a supply chain that helps departments works together instead of against one another. Not enough resources to get the job done efficiently. Learn positive reinforcement, most other companies are on track with this.

Pros

People, products and overall teamwork

Cons

Changing priorities on a daily basis

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your employees

Pros

Well-known and respected to those who don't know any better, so it looks good on your resumé. Pay starts out somewhat good, but you never get more than a 1-2.5% raise, so you're pretty much stuck at that salary.

Cons

Embarrassingly terrible work-life balance, which is the opposite of their work-life balance ethics they brag about during interviews, but it's all a lie. They also offer tuition reimbursement, which sounds good in theory, but they threaten you not to even dare let school interfere with your work and it essentially scares people from utilizing the benefit, which only covers a few classes per year. You're pretty much on-call 24/7 as well. Management expects all stores to be absolutely perfect and don't care what challenges you face day-to-day. You can bust your butt and sell in displays and innovation, but god forbid you don't have max or mist in a store! If this happens, you can expect to be singled out and belittled in front of other managers and peers. The company only seems to lead with negative reinforcement. There is also little room for advancement, as the new direction for the company is by direct-hiring recent college grads and they rarely promote from within, even if you have the same college credentials in addition to years of experience within the company. There's very bad morale, except for one week out of the year when they put on an "employee appreciation week"

Advice to Senior Management

Set more realistic standards for what a store should look like, and consider giving more flexibility for pricing. How can reps be expected to have a model store when our customers can get cheaper products and packages from wholesalers and the mysterious white vans? Also, consider adding more people in sales & merchandising & drivers. We can't adequately pick up more accounts if we can't properly service the accounts we have.

Pros

pay
benefits
employees
work conditions
communication
morale
team building skills
management communication
promotions
room to grow
stock purchase plan
respect

Cons

experience
conditions
weather
kilometers
political
wear and tear on body
merchandising
communication with accounts
respect from stores
working alone
recognition

Advice to Senior Management

keep it up! straight forward, keep the past success in front of you. dont forget about your frontline employees, they keep the company growing

Pros

High level experience sales and marketing experience
Next to senior management offices like VP's and was able to have conversations with them casually
Was able to present project in front of many senior level execs at the end of the internship including Senior Vice President General Manager
People are approachable and HR hosts social events and charity events to get people to mingle and network
HR hosted event that brought back old interns and had them showcase their success within the company
Gives you a lot of leeway to do your own thing and not that much supervision

Cons

White collar job that can easily turn into a blue collar job dependent on your sales force or the season.
People are candid and some gossiping amongst managers
Will work you very hard and expected to stay long hours ranging into the 10 -14 hour days
Language used in office space can be to relaxed sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Good job in terms of feedback of progress. High exposure to upper management is always appreciated and socials are fun.

Pros

Bottling Group is results-based, and action-oriented. Rewards accomplishment; rational decision-making. clear mission, and significant pride in culture and accomplishments as a company

Cons

There have been some challenges merging cultures and organizations between the Bottling group and the brand organization within PepsiCo. Hopefully will settle down soon.

Advice to Senior Management

Get the org structure finalized, and commit to employees on a direction. Pull the band aid off in one shot -- stop with the death by a thousand needles.

Pros

Resume looks good with Pepsi

Cons

Systematic with no real for creativity

Advice to Senior Management

You have good people just encourage them

Pros

Good brand
standardized work flow

Cons

not a real US company
salary is not so competitive
Ofiice is conjoint to the factory, very noisy and sometime smelly

Advice to Senior Management

Be open-minded and be democratic
Give chance to new comers
restructure the middle level management team

Pros

The campus hire program is very beneficial to recent college graduates looking to climb the corporate ladder in an established corporation.

Cons

Management bases important decisions on misinformation, and these decisions take a toll on the moral of the frontline employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management cannot base important buisness decisions on suggestions from their frontline supervisors if they truely believe their supervisors are incompetent which is usually the case.