The Coca-Cola Company Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Company recognititon-great on resume for future reference

Cons

Large company, competition is fierce

Advice to Senior Management

Be more transparent

Pros

small fish in a big pond
great pay
everything you need is on campus (Atlanta)

Cons

slow to change
leadership (in my group) was unwilling to ask for or accept feedback from "drones"
benefits no longer better than other similar-sized companies

Pros

benefits, pay, perks, cafe & cleaners on site

Cons

long hours
expectation to handle everything
mistakes are not tolerated

Advice to Senior Management

remove upper management, be true to your word of happiness - for employees

Pros

Money is good.
Working from home.
Benefits are so-so.
Life balance; not that much work.

Cons

Extremely poor management communication.
Many management layers with a lot of processes that are followed at times and create a bottle neck.
Surprised anything gets done.
Lots of bureacracy.
Have to drink the "coke" to like the culture.
Plenty of red-tape.
Marketing giant company, not an IT leader.
Too much reliance on consultants and contractors. No in-house knowledge.
Facilities are terrible; dirty and disgusting.
No career growth opportunties if you are not part of the team.

Advice to Senior Management

Eliminate the red tape and put processes that make sense and are well documented. Just because you have processes, does not mean you are running a well oiled machine.

Pros

Decent health and retirement benefits. Fair pay and bonus structure. Free product in the building and large selection of places to eat on-site. Company events for employees.

Cons

Limited work-life balance, flexibility depends on if manager will allow it. Not friendly to working mothers/dual income families. Old school and formal. Career development limited. Not easy to move within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement changes and policies that improve employee satisfaction and reduce turnover. Such as policies like telecommuting that allow more work-life balance. Set-up processes for approval of policies so Managers can't say no because they don't like it, only if there is a business reason to deny the employee that benefit.

Pros

Great learning enviroment, work/life balance, co-workers are very engaging with new employees

Cons

Sometimes frustrating due the size, innovation and ideas move and process slowly

Pros

The benefits are great and if you want to advance in your career.... other employeers seem to REALLY like seeing coke on your resume.

Cons

It's hard to move up the ladder unless you know the right people. At coke you don't have to have the best numbers or do the best job.... you just have to meet your numbers and know the right people. So if you don't know anybody... you are stuck at the same job.

Advice to Senior Management

Most of the employees were/are very supportive of the meger of CCNA and CCE into CCR... but how everything is/was working out has everyone on pins and needles. May want to consider better communcation with lower level employees..... and also re-train HR so they can all get on the same page.

Pros

International exposure--Coke derives 70%-80% of revenues outside of US. Great place to get internaional exposure, but not necessarily experience.

Cons

Insular, old-boys network tough to penetrate. Ex-Pat network that is tightly knit, wary of local talent.

Advice to Senior Management

Cookbook approach to each market may not work as there are still vast cultural differences that affect local consumer choices.

Pros

great brands and people. Really big budgets and commitment to excellence

Cons

politics, reorgs, and fairly stressful environment

Advice to Senior Management

focus on building talent and growing individuals not your own career politics

Pros

Reputation of brand. City located

Cons

Culture. Skill set and work ethic of employees has decreased over the years

Advice to Senior Management

Dig into how your employees treat each other and external vendors