Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – In your 20's a great place to work

Cons – Pay and bonus are company performance related, if the company don't hit budget you'll get a very poor show

Advice to Senior Management – Middle management are good, the very senior people don't understand the workforce.

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

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great life work balance. Exciting Brands.

Cons – Limited career opportunities to progress once at Senior management level.

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay
Free beverages
Great for your CV

Cons – Talk about world class and best practice but continue to move "lifers" around the organisation - shifting them sideways into new departments. Often times they have never had any experience in that field and are left to their own devices. This does not stimulate best in class and does not motivate those committed to a particular profession
It is not always the achievements that get you places... lots of brown nosing and talking yourself up to the right people seem to work better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. full-time

Pros – dynamic, challenging, number one brand pride

Cons – not enough time for good piece of work, not good teamwork, not supportive environment, employees are just individuals, not being close to each other, lack of communication between functions

Advice to Senior Management – foster a more work/life balance and teamwork culture

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

Former Employee – worked at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Pros – Great brands, great products, young environment, fairly dynamic. COmpany benefits were strong, as were the review processes to assess how people could improve as individuals.

Cons – High levels of bureaucracy, easy to "build empires" and stay in role for a long time and thrive on the good benefits packages once in a high enough level of role. This stifled young and enthusiastic talent wishing to be promoted.

There was a very clear ceiling available to most people unless the fitted a certain corporate culture in finance. Equally, whilst there was opportunities for a lot of project work, much of this was only distributed amongst the senior management leaving the middle and junior levels to continue with the bog standard transactional processing roles. This means that there was never really any opportunity to try something new unless you moved roles.

Senior management were very poor at communicating how the company was doing and what initiatives were being put in place. There was, at the time an attempt by the company to improve staff morale by measuring "Engagement" and trying to define CCE as a fantastic place to work. However, the attitudes of the senior management did not fall in line with the expectations set by the initiative and as a result their attempts to raise morale appeared superficial.

Advice to Senior Management – Better communication for employees and a demonstration that their input in valued. Finance staff appeared to work in very mundane roles with little in terms of project work which developed their skill base....and team building sessions involving running around forests are all very good if morale within the team is good in the first place. THey are not a good substitute for good management practices

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Pros – The Salary and benefits package

Cons – Lack of communication from management, unfair treatment where bonuses are concerned. (BONUSES BASED ON ELEMENTS THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER)
Lack of the ability to listen to employees ideas.
We can all see ways to fix issues and come up with resolves but these are 99% of the time lost in Politics..!

Advice to Senior Management – Actually come to work when you are supposed to.....!
Listen to what we have to say and act on it for once.
Grow a pair and stand up and be counted, you can't be everyones mate..... START DOING YOUR JOB AND MANAGING PEOPLE.

Former Employee – worked at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Pros – high energy environment, excellent people, great brands. Will thrive for many years abroad after serving their purpose in the United States over the past few decades

Cons – past management teams were occasionally sprinkled with highly nepotistic and politically self-motivated individuals. Most were eventually eliminated when Coca-Cola bought Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Pros – Not many other than working for a large corporation.
Good 401k

Cons – Way overworked. You are just a number to Coke. Lazy managers that will not get in the field and help throughout the busy holidays. Everything is the Merchandisers fault.

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Co-workers were fun to be around and work with.

Cons – Long hours and being on call for customer issues evenings and weekends.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Decent Pay
-Friendly Environment
-Looks Great on the Resume

Cons – -Long Hours
-Challenging Goals and sales.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend