Dr Pepper Snapple Group Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great benefits. Most supervisors work pretty hard and long hours. The company is constantly looking for ways to improve.

Cons – Evening shift is 4pm to whenever the production line has been restocked (2-4AM-ish). The company rarely promotes from within.

Advice to Senior Management – Add a 3rd shift so you can cut back on the overtime you always complain about.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – opportunity to work in a very fast paced environment and gain some job experience

Cons – very strict, very demanding, one person doing two peoples jobs, but you get to learn to work in a fast pace environment and could be a good training for the future. some co workers are mean. dont care about your personal problems and they dont give a lot of chances for mistakes. and dont ever be late

Advice to Senior Management – ease up on the pressure on employees, make it a more comfortable working environment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – I enjoy what I do and I like my co-workers.

Cons – This place cares nothing for their employees. I've seen too many people get fired over the smallest things. Even though we're not Union, If you don't have senority or service date your basically an on call worker. Is this how it is at all DPSG facilities? I'll call you when I need you and send you home whenever? What a joke...

Advice to Senior Management – We all know times are hard. Now's the time to show compassion for your workers, so don't treat your full time employees like temps to get that extra bonus at the end of the year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – You don"t have to work with coworkers on a day to day basis.

Cons – Mid-level management is riding the gravy train. Example: Salesman call on merchandisers to complete their orders (literally call from home). Communication is lacking and their is no professionalism.

Advice to Senior Management – Check your salesman

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Competitive Benefits, self-motivated, little micro management

Cons – No room for advancement, nepotism rampant, low pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more equally to the competitors, promote on merit.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Benefits are good they start from day 1

Cons – Work not distributed equally.
Do not pay time and a half, and have little respect for employees.
Long hours no family life.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay better and show a little bit more respect for the employees that actually keep the company afloat

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Fun to work for a national brand company.

Cons – Cultural evolution that began with the divestiture from Cadbury went too far, resulting in an imbalance between the executive levels and the front lines, in terms of appreciation, recognition, rewards. Seems to have evolved into a boys club at HQ.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize the value delivered by the front lines. Be a bit more humble and appreciative.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – The company is still young and has the opportunity to be successful if changes are made NOW!

Cons – Severally undercompensated. There is a major disconnect with senior management and the realities of front lines duties and needs

Advice to Senior Management – Address mileage and employee compensation and the lack of front line support to be successful.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend