The Coca-Cola Company Reviews

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

Great place to learn marketing and business techniques. Strong internal processes. Good brand budgets. Knowledgeable management. Friendly and fun environment.

Cons

Work / life balance is not always easy to maintain. Global company which doesn't offer full flexibility when developing brands.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to reward employees for hard work. Improve work / life balance by increasing entry level positions or by decreasing volume of work.

Pros

good opportunities, good pay and leadership

Cons

never much time to spend with ur family

Advice to Senior Management

offer more opportunities and better hours

Pros

Great brands, strong thinkers in Management

Cons

Long hours and lean structure. Lack of clarity in role sorts

Advice to Senior Management

Better work-life balance

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

compensation, company prestige, exposure to best practices in marketing

Cons

back-stabbing culture, management turnover, lack of accountability

Advice to Senior Management

Improve culture with actions, not words

Pros

Savvy business plans and ideas that you can implement in future jobs. Great opportunity to network with other professionals since this industry has a high turnover (possible future leads).

Cons

Communication between departments can be better. The ideals presented by senior management is not carried out by middle management. The company does not utilize the talents and strengths of the many people that work there.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide management training opportunities so that your talent can grow. Older management is not up to date with current technological trends which slows down progress in the field. Talent that is in the field (sales, management) knows what the people want and upper management does not consider that valuable information when implementing new processes (it sounds good, but it rarely works because field knowledge was not sought or incorporated).

Pros

Strong management team, strong brands and products, amazing people to work with, very friendly work environment, allowing great flexibility and work/lie balance

Cons

Not so tight communication among the departments and with the bottling partner and the company, also system of performance feedback was rather formal

Advice to Senior Management

I would appreciate a bit more tight communication and alignment of decisions and operation with the bottling partner, also I would benefit more from better performance feedback