Dr Pepper Snapple Group Reviews

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

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Being part of the beverage industry you could be very creative in your marketing/merchandising with retailers in how to sell your product.

Cons – Senior Leadership took care of their own group of people, and if you weren't part of that group you could not get promoted. Very tactical about how they ran the business, rather than strategic.

Advice to Senior Management – Practice what you preach. Don't spend so much time and energy giving parking spots up front in the garage to yourselves and focus on how to grow the business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Good growth and career progression opportunities, nice perks, fun products. Many opportunities to gain experience in different areas of the business.

Cons – Poor management/leadership communication, people and resources are stretched too thin, work/life balance not a priority, sales results valued above integrity.

Advice to Senior Management – Value your people, listen to subordinates and respect ideas enough to make changes. Admit mistakes and correct them rather than trying to cover your losses. Support the team by providing adequate resources (including hiring additional head count where needed to drive the business). Focus on career development in a way that ensures success (step-by-step progression).

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – - use supply methodologies taught in business school like six sigma, lean manufacturing and RCI
- trusted with a project that will have an impact on the business
- friendly work environment, everyone is willing to help
- executive management is very personable
- was not micromanaged

Cons – - not many young people
- did not get to travel

Advice to Senior Management – - continue to grow the internship program

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Great benefits (health, dental, vision and 401k)
Company Car
Good people that have been around awhile
A Company you really have to mess up at several times to be terminated

Cons – Upper management not really concerned about customers wants; just #'s and displays
Antiquated Co. not really in-tune with technology
A service company not concerned with service

Advice to Senior Management – Take a really good look @ what your competition is doing and try to keep up
Get out into the field and ask some Questions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – - Big Brands, Big Budgets
- Decent Pay
- Solid Processes (if they are adhered to)
- Lots of fluidity among the workforce

Cons – - Increasingly siloed departments reduces responsibility for delivering plans
- Little interest in innovation
- Kill or be killed attitude among some colleagues leads to an intensely political climate

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management is overcompensated while many workforce reductions have taken place. The balance need to be redressed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Great people! Great brands! Work is what you make of it in a seemingly typical corporate HQ office environment. Most people around here have been here for a long time. Very stable.

Cons – The stability of the organization has a downside of allowing people to become entrenched in their jobs and processes. Process and Technological improvement takes some encouragement (and patience.) It also results in fewer opportunities for career advancement, so getting that promotion becomes quite competitive.

Advice to Senior Management – Since going public, any ownership in the results of the company as a whole has been eliminated for all positions below management. (Stock purchase plans, bonuses, etc., are gone) In light of this fact, policies should be revised to encourage more collaboration, or everyone will eventually be so focused on achieving their personal performance measures that the performance of the company as a whole will suffer. Remember- we can accomplish more together than we can individually.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Benefits are excellent. Time off is good but if you dont' have enough employees you can't take your vacation.

Cons – Pay is minimal at best compared to the amount of incompetent people you have to deal with. Management team has no clue of how to run things or deliver service to its customer base. Management also shows little respect for employees.

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

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – Plenty of Overtime, Not rocket science, Drive a motorized pallet jack, kind of looks like a forklift only you are standing, part of a Union

Cons – Long hours, 6 days a week

Advice to Senior Management – Thanks for the generous compensation, truly appreciate it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Pros – The compensation was based on the amount of product sold to the stores in the territory.
The benefit package was great!

Cons – A typical day for them consisted on trying to visit 32 account whith most of them merchandised by yourself. Pepsi, and Coke provided their account managers with 15 stores at the most. Also, most of the merchandising in the route had to be done by the account manager as Dr. Pepper/ Snapple will give a merchandiser 15 stores in a day. Impossibleto do!!! The competitors normally will give their merchandisers 5 or 6 stores daily. So the account manager had issues with store managers everyday regarding this matter. Typical day will start you at 6:00 AM. until you whenever or you stopped yourself. Realistically, for what the position calls for which is selling and merchandising stores such as big box stores and chain supermarkets it is a daunting task to complete 32 account ina day. an average big box store takes 2 to 3 hours to merchandise. Ina typical 8 hour day that amounts to 3 or four stores a day.

Advice to Senior Management – None. The upper management knows the numbers game. They know that keeping up a partial team running each branch nationwide saves them money in expenses ranging from capital goods to personnel. This savings translate into money for the stockholders who are being rewarded with the stronghanded style of management the company currently upholds.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend