MillerCoors Reviews

Current Employee – been working at MillerCoors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Work/Life Balance
Making beer is fun
Many good and enjoyable people to work with

Cons – Tight "good ol boy" network makes it hard to move up on merit, you have to massage fragile egos.
Managers tend to be short sighted when looking at internal talent.
Too many contract workers = no buy in company "values"

Advice to Senior Management – Seek out the driven people to replace the complacent or those who are waiting for their pension.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MillerCoors full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Working for beer company can be lots of fun. Get to work with many cross functional teams regularly and distributors.

Cons – While they stress a performance culture, sometimes the wrong people are getting recognized and promoted. These people just tell people what they want to hear.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to live to the same accountability you ask from your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MillerCoors

Pros – Free beer Free beer Free beer

Cons – Created a new sales management program (SMP) with the promise of cultivating talent but the real truth is that the only people getting promoted are the leftovers from Miller or Coors that stayed on after the joint venture. They have stayed at the company for 5+ years but lack the passion, talent, and drive to work but complain endlessly about the need to be promoted. Upper management seems to listen to them and they get promoted even though they aren't fit for the job. While the standouts from the SMP program must languish even though they are more capable and have more talent and deliver better results. This is why ABi does so well because they treasure a hard-working and capable workforce.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop favoring the oldies that have just been sitting here waiting to be promoted and start looking into the talent pool that you claim to be so proud of.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MillerCoors

Pros – -Free Beer
-Quality/Fun Products
-Flexible Work Options
-Great Benefits

Cons – -Still trying to figure out "best practices" between Coors and Miller
-Systems are outdated
-Too many temporary workers
-Lack of career progression coaching
-Minimal exposure to senior leadership outside of headquarters in Chicago

Current Employee – been working at MillerCoors

Pros – There is a Union to support employee regarding grievances. The Rate of pay is one of the best around. The Location is convenient to the metroplex and you don't have to fight traffic too badly.

Cons – Benefits have become so costly that raises don't come near compensating for them, not even considering the higher cost of living, higher taxation of our nation.
Working with Caustic Chemicals without adequate protection.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the old timers who sit on their rear all day, hire people who want to and will work!

Former Employee – worked at MillerCoors full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work on beer
Many good people

Cons – Poor inter-company collaboration
A lot of posturing and politics
Morale

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MillerCoors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent culture that emphasizes the value of people. work life balance a high priority among leadership in my team. Great support from team when proposing new ideas that challenges the way we currently do business

Cons – Emphasis on treating people well can occasionally result in group think or failure to challenge status quo.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MillerCoors full-time for less than a year

Pros – use of gas card and company truck

Cons – Management make bad decisions. Account managers are overworked and underpaid

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

Former Employee – worked at MillerCoors

Pros – Beer is a fun product to work on, and social people are attracted to the adult beverage industry, and stay in the industry. It's a very collaborative environment, a lot of idea sharing to get to a better end result.

Cons – Like any large company, you can be on the "good" list or the "bad" list by the senior leadership team. If you are on the "good" list, you are golden, an it's probably because you've done good work and found a way to make that work known. If you are on the "bad" list you are not going to move up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MillerCoors full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great entry level compensation package.

Cons – Poor/non existent sales training program.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire an outside training organization to help develop a sales training program for this and other sales positions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company