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Columbia Distributing Company

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Columbia Distributing Company reviews

3.2

42% would recommend to a friend

(310 total reviews)
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Chris Steffanci

57% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Columbia Distributing Company has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 310 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Columbia Distributing Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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310 reviews
3.0
Jan 3, 2016

It's a job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mentally easy work Physically active Get to meet lots of nice people

Cons

Lowest pay in the industry Lots of physical labor On your feet all day

5.0
Nov 27, 2015

Driver

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to work. Great benefits. Hours are perfect, no weekends. Management really cares about the employees.

Cons

There are really no cons. Like I said great place to work.

1.0
Nov 23, 2015

Red Bull Sales

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It was a job. I liked my managers and the co-workers were also very friendly.

Cons

Oh boy - where to begin? You get up at 5:00 A.M. and drive a Red Bull van around town 50+ hours /week for a measly $34,000/year. This is not a true sales job as you do not negotiate price, terms, contracts, etc. - you are basically just taking orders on how many cases stores need to fill their shelves and have enough back stock to get them through until you come again. Also, you will spend a decent amount of time breaking down boxes and filling shelves with Red Bull, as apparently that's your job to do as well - oh, and if any of the skews don't sell (because no one buys some of their products) you have to rotate them out or pay for the cans yourself! The whole thing is just a bad deal aside from, as I have said, it's a job. Most people want to be beer reps as their is much more money in that role, or work for the direct side of the alcohol industry. This is a very rough stepping stone.

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