Winebow Reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(160 total reviews)
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Dean Ferrell

70% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Winebow has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 160 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Winebow employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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160 reviews
3.0
30 Dec 2015

Pros of Beautiful Portfolio Outweigh the Cons if you Have a Good Manager

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Pros

Beautiful portfolio of wines and spirits. Excellent product and industry education program. Passionate co-workers. If you have a good manager they will cultivate your abilities and assist you in reaching your goals. The manager really dictates the environment as a good manager and leader takes the time to put together a strong team of quality people. Enjoyable sales competition between colleagues, on the whole not overly cutthroat. Nice incentives an perks.

Cons

Legalities of industry create un-even playing field between companies, as well as between individual divisions within the company. Expected to sign agreements that you will not break SLA rules, yet upper management regularly expect it of employees. Breaking rules (not signing an agreement that you understand them and will not break them) seems to be standard in the industry, but could change if it started from the top down, which I do not believe will ever happen here. If you have a poor manager you easily could be used as a scapegoat. Compensation used to be more stable until a merger with Martin Scott and revamp of hr policies. I was about to gain (4 or 5 weeks from it) an additional week of vacation due to coming up on anniversary date and instead no longer qualified. Company hires dead weight managers (nepotism?) and hangs on to them refusing to see their negative impact on once vibrant and successfully selling divisions.

2.0
18 Nov 2021
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Pros

Great selection of wines from around the world. Excellent pay and benefits.

Cons

Once a company that everyone wanted to work for but new senior leadership has everyone running for the door. Unrealistic sales goals, extremely toxic work environment. No synergy between departments, constant threats of being written up, outdated style of micromanagement. Management talks through you not to you. Company no longer cares about the small mom and pop businesses that contributed to the early success of the organization.

2.0
25 May 2021

Could be a great company, but they don’t care about their employees

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Pros

A few kind and talented people working across some of the departments

Cons

So many cons: - Absolutely no room for growth. Do not join this company unless you want to stay in the same position the entire time you’re there, even if you’re there for 10 years - Not only do they not care about issues like mental health, diversity and inclusion, or positive company culture, but they make it known that they don’t and that’s “not their problem” to deal with. - No HR to turn to in times of trouble, they are there to just report back anything you say to your managers and directors so that they use it against you - Non stop work, with no compensation to match. You can even get title changes to reflect the increase of work, and they still won’t give you a raise or a plan to get to a raise. - Constant toxic bad mouthing about fellow employees, friends, and other department leaders. - Zero management skills from the leadership teams and directors. Bottom line - you’re on your own and better be okay with throwing your coworkers under the bus to try and save yourself from the unreasonable people you report to.

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