The Coca-Cola Company reviews

This is a great job for you enjoy waking up and being at stores by 6 am each morning. As an Account Manager your job is to count boxes on the shelves, around the store & in the cooler, and the back. You are an Order Taker- this not sales. This is a glorified merchandiser. Coke is known in the grocery market for their horrible service and just pushing boxes. To be in compliance and receive the full amount of reimbursement and mileage for your vehicle it can not be more than 5 years old, so every 5 years you are expected to get a new car. Management is not on the same page and every e-mail you receive is FYI... if you want to be apart of the bigger process as an Account Manager, you are not. Many times you start at 6am and then have to help out other territories by sticking things on shelves (POS) and doing your merchandising duties of facing coke bottles, building displays, stacking boxes, and getting chewed out about how much Coke is disliked. -Talks about Chinese company buyout.

Sales reps have too many accounts in a day to execute the "Look of success" on a day to day basis. I average 13-16 a day and upper managers say 30-45 mins per small store account. theres no way, closer to 50-65 mins per store to do what they want you to do. Upper management starting from District sales manager and up have NO IDEA what their account managers have to do every day. Recently they have removed the relief sales rep from the small store side. So we are writing "blind orders" for anywhere from 2 weeks to a month out. Get out your crystal ball and predict the weather along with regular random occurrences. It will be impossible to be at all accurate. And customers are furious, they don't believe for a minute that this is in their benefit. It's a cost cutting measure.