Dr Pepper Snapple Group Reviews

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

Pros – -There's probably at least one good District Manager there (Manages a group of Account Managers)
-You constantly get to interact with people (Could be a Pro or Con)
-Weekends and Holidays off

Cons – -10-12 hour work days
-Pay is no that great (Relief Acct Mgr: 33k/yr, Acct Mgr: 33k-55k/yr
-Under constant pressure to sell products to stores that have little interest in those products, though that's pretty standard for most sales jobs.

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

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits are decent for this type of company. Employee sales and online perks program are also very competitive with what others offer.

Cons – People are worn out. Everyone works 6 to 7 days a week anywhere from 11 to 13 hours with very poor hourly wages. Turnover is awful even for supervisors and above. Life gets even more miserable when there are audits. Employees are treated bad but can't go anywhere else.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people. Treat your employees like people !

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

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

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Global name recognition on resume, that's all.

Cons – Very unorganized in all aspects, especially key accts in non-Dr Pepper regions. Blind leading the blind. Key accts likes to think big, but usually falls flat on ad pricing and promotions. So many times, an ad is supposed to happen and then you find out at store level the pricing is wrong or the item never made it in the ad. Then, key accts blames the buyer. The only reliable key acct activity is Snapple or core five brands because that's usually national.

Advice to Senior Management – Advice is to Exec level; get rid of all your left-over SE Atlantic management at branch and region level if they aren't cutting it. They are the problem because they are old school. Do like CCE and PBG did in the early 2000s. Start flushing the dead weight good ole boy network for more progressive, corporate minded people with bigger goals and aspirations. These guys are killing you as they wait out their 10-15 years until retirement.

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 – Health Benefits.
Discount on Drinks.
Free water bottles, lol.

Cons – You are hired as a salary employee, but what they fail to tell you is that you WILL have to work 12 hour shifts OR MORE(till the route is done). The pay while in training is $120 a day. Basically if you work 40 hours a week plus 20 hours overtime they are paying you around $8.50 an hour. Once your done with training the pay is $55 a day plus commission which is .65 cents per case of cans, .85 cents per case of bottles. Which I think is good but you WILL NEVER sell more than 100 cases on a GOOD day. Basically you are fighting EVERYDAY to make $8.50 an hour and putting a 12 hour shift to do so. Sounds good huh? <---Sarcasm. I just wish they would of told me all of this before they hired me, HR will not discuss anything about hours or commission pay, they say they don't have a clue, which is a lie. They would save money being honest about it because I would of never wasted their time, I don't ask for much, I would be happy with $12+ an hour at any job. If I would of known it was $8.50 an hour I would of just kept looking. I was expecting this job to pay from $14-$15 an hour like my friends in Dallas but for some reason the Houston location has a different pay structure.

Advice to Senior Management – Salary increase or the option to be Hourly, you guys demand too much of us to be salary. The drivers DO ALL THE WORK and get paid the least out of everyone in the company, it just does not make sense. We are the backbone of the company.

Every employee I've talked to is trying to get into a better paying department but looks like the supervisors make it hard for them to transfer because they don't want to deal with training someone new. So once you get in a department your pretty much stuck there.

The whole checking in and out process should be a little quicker, you have 1 or 2 people that will count the cases then they will add up the numbers over and over and over until the numbers match my numbers, they refuse to use a calculator. If their going to keep adding the numbers till it matches my numbers and switching numbers around it just defeats the whole purpose of their job.

Maybe you can have the people who load the product count and seal/lock the truck that way we can just hand over an inventory sheet to the people at the check point so they wont need to sit there counting over and over until our numbers match. All they have to do is check to make sure the SEALS have not been broken. Once we get out the gate we can break the seal on the truck and go about our day.
I hear they do this in the Dallas location, I don't see why the Houston location is not doing the same. Also I have friends in the Dallas location and they get PAID MORE why?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – The company is growing. Executives are very friendly. People from the outside have interest in the business. You get to sample new products and attend celebrations for new products outside with coworkers. Very fun atmosphere.

Cons – If you don't have experience in sales, it's pretty difficult to move up. Not a lot of youth in the company. Not the best pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide stock options and bonuses to non managers. Install a career mentoring program. Don't focus quarterly meetings only on Dsd business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – -Train you to get your CDL
-Impossible to get fired
-Alot smaller loads than other bigger brands since in OK you do not do DP

Cons – -60 + hours a week
-Overtime is only 6-5 dollars a hour
-daily rate is a joke
-Expected to finish your route at a fast pace to help other slower drivers
-most days are 14 hours
-Promotions come with less pay because salary is less than that of drivers
-Co-workers are barely able to do their job because of low pay quality is not there
-Extremely high turnover avg. for diver is less than 2 months
-All other positions are way under paid and over worked
I would not work here unless you like working 60 hard hours a week and have no future goals with a company
Get your CDL and leave

Advice to Senior Management – Pay employees what they deserve over time should be time and a half not 5 bucks a hour
If you pay employees more you will attract better quality and spend less training new drivers every few months
Hold employees accountable for their actions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – It is a good environment, it has opportunity to learn and has continuous training.

Cons – It is very vertical career development seems slow.

Yes, I would 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