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The Coca-Cola Company

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The Coca-Cola Company reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,446 total reviews)
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James Quincey

88% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

The Coca-Cola Company has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,446 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The The Coca-Cola Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
Mar 20, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting challenges to work on and a company that is not afraid to invest in cutting-edge solutions. The company is trying desperately to grow beyond it's core sugary, sparkling drink category through acquisitions such as Costa Coffee and Body Armor and has money to invest heavily into product development and advertising and marketing. The pay tends to be above average, but even that has begun to erode so it's not that different than other large global organizations.

Cons

The company has struggled for decades with corporate bloat. When they owned bottlers in North America, before refranchising them, the overhead and corporate organization along with the administrative infrastructure to manage the combined businesses grew exponentially. Since selling off the NA bottling companies, they have been cutting corporate jobs, initiating large reorgs every other year or so and outsourcing huge parts of the organization. Your job is never safe and that's made the environment toxic, with competition to keep your job, especially at upper levels of management. With all the cuts, there is way too much work to be done by those who stay. They say they are training their managers to eliminate work, but they just keep adding more initiatives and projects without regards to those that have to do the work. Then you also have to ask yourself whether you can support a huge organization that continues to sell a product that is bad for your health. Yes, people are not forced to drink it, but sugary drinks have been linked to serious health issues and I think eventually they will be taken down by class action law suits or taxed into submission just like the tobacco industry.

3.0
Nov 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, if you do not mind being underpaid for your skills and high workload, raises in pennies. Guaranteed, one day off a week (of their choice), outside of PTO and vacation time.

Cons

They demoted all tech II to tech I because of continual short staffing and they needed to lower the requirements to hire because they are underpaying people with a bachelors. Nights is the the only position ever available for techs and it is continually short staffed, so new hire training is fast tracked and as soon as it is over expect to be on forced overtime continually. If you are black, I would highly encourage you to stay away from this position in the company, solely for your peace of mind. One black tech out of a staff of 32. They will micromanage and single you out consistently. If you dare speak-up and point out the unfair treatment of you compared to all of your peers, with evidence, they will only do the before mentioned even more because as long as they are not calling you racial slurs, the disrespect, micro-aggression, and singling out is within professional reason.

2.0
Jul 15, 2021

Changed for worse

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Career opportunities if you know right people Ethical company

Cons

Recent reorg has resulted in having one person do work for 1.5-2 people. This is pervasive throughout Corporate side of company. Reorg also split off a whole faction of work and people creating an “us against them” mentality and “it’s not my work”. No one knows who is doing what and while the Company wants you to act empowered that’s fine as long as you don’t do anything wrong. If you do, be prepared for a litany of questions and spending the next few weeks explaining what you did wrong. If you like working 12+ hour days and 7 days a week, this is the place for you. Management instituted a policy for no email on weekends unless urgent and no meetings on certain Fridays. This would be great if anyone actually followed it. Still get email all weekend and meetings every Friday.

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