Dr Pepper Snapple Group Reviews

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I 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

I 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

I 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

I have 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