Don't work here - Anonymous employee Precept Wine Employee Review

1.0
May 5, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Discount on retail priced wine? A great place if you love to work ALL THE TIME Amazing connections built with colleagues who are also suffering from being over worked, burnt out, yelled at and gossiped about. Sales positions have a huge opportunity for growth elsewhere, but you're not getting a sales role at Precept unless you've worked at SGWS, but if you leave Precept, you're dead to them.

Cons

Where to start? The exec team will gossip about you to other employees and to you about your coworkers. This has included the C level who oversees the HR department telling people about what is said during employee exit interviews. The will also yell at you, make you cry and then during your team calls, tell the rest of the team you cried, mentioning you by name. Timelines given are usually unrealistic. Not just due to workload and capacity, but legal or licensing issues that the teams are encouraged "to work through" because whatever project the CEO or CMO have decided is a priority that week (or day), is more important than following federal and state laws surrounding facilities and alcohol. Work life balance is not a thing here - it was mentioned before, but whoever sends the earliest AND latest emails is the golden goose. "If you work under 50 hours, you should be fired". "Precept should be your top priority. Maybe second to family if you have one, but barely". no out of office messages allowed. "if you have a cellphone, you can work 24/7" - CEO Pay is FAR below comps. Even alcohol industry comps which tend to run lower than other CPG channels. Bonuses are a large % of your total compensation, but good luck getting yours. The amount allocated is far less than the total if all employees hit their targets - if they even have them. CFO will do anything to keep people from getting raises or bonuses.

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5.0
Apr 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Our team loves to host guests, and we bring our best professional and personal selves on a daily basis. Precept has many tasting rooms, and they give a lot of freedom to the managers to curate the house rules and general atmosphere. This is helpful since every space reflects the staff and their intentions, and I’ve only had good experiences.

Cons

Precept HQ is often unaware of the market and locales where there tasting rooms operate. When launching new branding ideas or change in strategy, they should lean more on their local teams to make decisions. Wine is no longer an experience limited for a narrow audience. Curating unique experiences for diverse audiences pays off, and planning cruises for the 0.5% will do nothing but shrink the scope of business. Remember that businesses with family names in this enlightened era tend to point towards new generations viewing ‘NAME’ family wines as being narcissistic. Battle Creek in Portland is a great example of what can flourish when the team is trusted and empowered - thank you for sharing your programming with other tasting rooms to help us form new structure and vibes!

4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fun and welcoming. Good wine.

Cons

Slow raises. minimal opportunity for growth.

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