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Starting with the positives:

The people are extremely friendly. They will go out of their way to help out or have a pleasant conversation. This is true for leadership of departments and C-level.. I rarely run into individuals who will only meet with me with my manager due to lack of seniority.

The work/life balance is flexible. I never feel pressured to check emails or work past 5 if I prefer not to. I have been told to go home or log off when it is past 5 more than once. Working late is always by my own accord and weekend work is extremely rare. I have never been denied a PTO request nor was guilted about taking PTO as I wanted/needed. It should go without saying that this can change during large initiatives, but the work/life balance is fantastic for a regular day-to-day.

Stemming from the friendly environment, Gallo is also very inclusive of all. There are tons of clubs/groups for any and all who want to participate. 

Free coffee is available all day. Which is always a plus.


Now on to the negatives:

There is a lack of accountability. My largest obstacles day to day is trying to get responses and deliverables from other teams. Escalation is rarely helpful as the lack of accountability is usually top-down. This has improved over the last year or two but still has a long way to go.

The culture has shifted greatly. While some of the shift has been good, there has been a lot of bad that doesn't get acknowledged. The bad has impeded on some of the positives I have noted above. Acknowledgment would be a great first step for improving.

Promotions can (and will) be gated by years of experience. While it can be a helpful measurement, it shouldn't be a hard stop. You may be ready for a promotion after 3 years but aren't eligible until 5. It can be a huge motivation killer and has caused more than one high performer to leave for other opportunities.

Pay could be more competitive. That is not to say it is poor, but it is at the lower end for some roles based on market research.

There is a lack of remote options. While the IT department does allow for a hybrid model, your in office days are picked for you. Full remote work is not possible for most barring high performing individuals.


If I had written a review 3 years ago, I would have given Gallo 5 stars. Unfortunately, it has dropped quite significantly since then. There has been an improvement over the last year or so but it has a long way to go. Even with all the negatives, there is a reason that a lot of people start and end their careers with Gallo. It really can be a fantastic place to work when it is at its best. But for now, it needs quite a bit of improvement.

E&J Gallo winery pays well, offers school reimbursement, and has decent benefits. However, the moral at the Modesto operations is grim. The backbone of the operations, the hourly production employees, are treated like garbage. The salaried employees and those lucky enough to work in offices or the shiny new building get to look forward to work every day with free coffee beverages and snacks, not to mention they come in to work smiling (which MUST be nice). The hourly production employees are quarantined off and limited to certain sections of the facilities that are mostly dirty, lacking in resources and of a lower quality. For instance, behind office doors you can even find company provided eating utensils and plates. The hourly employees are allotted utensils (when stocked) as well but of a much lower quality (I’ve actually been cut by multiple spoons). Office employees get access to restrooms furnished by Restoration Hardware, where production employees are lucky if they have paper towels stocked. Most production employees have never even seen the inside of the shiny new building let alone granted access to its amenities. That is just the facility. 

The Modesto Bottling room has created an environment in which no employee is safe. It is one-man-for-himself as it is widely known that you can trust no soul in the plant. Management is at the mercy of an absolutely abhorrent Human Resources department in which their ONLY goal is to catch you doing something worthy of reprimanding. Rules and regulations have gotten so stringent that people dread and are afraid of working here. While some of the blame is due to a constant rotation of management, one trying to outdo and impress the other, much of the responsibility should be given to HR. While employees are unionized the Human Resources department acts as the company’s union and they are exponentially more powerful. They will do whatever they need to punish employees and are a nightmare to deal with. The department is filled with some of the most unhappy and meanest people I have ever met. What used to be a fun place to work has turned into a bootcamp. 

All in all, if you are interested in coming to work, and being treated like cattle, where you are marched around and made to do redundant tasks with no moral support for better than average pay, this is the job for you.

Being a part of Gallo as a Lab Tech at the Lodi Branch was a blessing! I loved every moment of working there. I would definitely recommend this job to anyone who wants to get a foot in the door. Gallo is a really great company to work for, and the people are even better. I never had a bad experience working there.

The Lab Tech position is spilt into 3 shift: Day (6:00AM - 2:30PM), Swing (2:00PM -10:30PM), and Grave (10:00PM - 6:30AM). Yes, during the Harvest season, the lab is operating 24/7.

Of the shifts mentioned, swing shift is a bit more relaxed. Swing is considered the "in-between" shift that helps finish anything that the Day shift could not finish, and prepare for the Grave shift. Of course, each shift had their own set of specified samples to collect and run, but even with the samples assigned during the swing shift, the amount of work is manageable with another person. During Swing, there really isn't a lot of oversight since the QA Manager leaves after the swing shift begins. This means you'll have to figure things out on your own, or call the manager for help. This is great for anyone who doesn't need to be held by their hand to get things done.

For Day shift: this shift finishes up what the Grave shift could not during their shift. Of the three shifts, Day shift gets the most interaction with those in charge, since the managers are physically on-site during those hours. On top of that, Day shift interacts most with the other departments, since the other departments also come in around that time. This shift is great for anyone who wishes to learn more about the wine industry and still have a life after getting off work.

For Grave shift: similar to Swing, there is little to no oversight until the managers come in. Interaction with the other departments are kept to a minimum, since everyone else doesn't arrive til the next morning. This isn't a bad thing, especially if you enjoy working things out on your own. Great for college students and individuals who already have another job. 

Overall, working for Gallo is a blast! (At least at the Lodi Branch)

Everyday, we would start the shift with a group stretch session; I thought that this was a very good practice before going out to work. We would get our assignments from our team supervisor of what the day would look like… They were very on-top of this, letting our team know what specifically we'd be doing; saying things like 'We have oak today in Tank …' or 'We have oak today, but not until 4:30pm, the tank still needs to dry out'. There were also some days when we had nothing other than cleaning around the winery; these days seemed to go by slower than the oak days. 
Though we were all seasonal employees, I'd say I got along with my co-workers well, as well as our supervisors, during the season.
While at Gallo winery in Livingston, I learned the importance of safety precautions in an industrial workplace, such as: watching where you are walking with forklifts, bicycles, and large trucks driving around; making sure large pumps with heavy hoses or caps are correctly secured so they don't come lose when water or wine runs through the pump; what the correct Personal Protective Equipment is needed to for which job; and what to do when there is a dangerous chemical spill in your work area. 
One part of my job I enjoyed most was working in the silos to install either planks or bags of oak chips or dust to help with the winemaking process. Another thing was after I learned how to use a power-washer to clean the carbon-coated silos, that became a favorite of mine towards the end of my time there too.

E&J Gallo has provided me with the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. As a Field Sales Representative, I was forced to step out of my comfort zone and develop consultative selling skills in order to grow Gallo's business in my territory. I was able to develop skills in customer relationship development. As a District Sales Manager now with Gallo, I've learned what it takes to be a team leader and achieve results through others. I've had to learn how to recruit and train new hires. The opportunity to manage a large territory and a team of 3 sales reps at such a young age has been a challenging, but very rewarding experience. The company culture at E&J Gallo is one of the "work hard, play hard" environment. Everyone is competitive and strives to be the best, which forces everyone else to work at their highest level. Because everyone has similar self-motivated personality types, most co-workers have a lot in common and become friends as well as colleagues. The most enjoyable part of working for a company like E&J Gallo is the autonomy the company gives when achieving goals. Each person is able to learn their own selling and management styles within the strategic plan on the Winery.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people and the benefits including access to the wine shop and discounts at tasting rooms. Some of the projects are pretty interesting too. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The workload. Gallo operates pretty lean and that puts a lot of pressure on small teams to produce big outcomes. It felt hard to take PTO and step away. People move on or are let go and it takes a long time to backfill them also adding to workload stress. I also feel there is an expectation from leadership to put in work beyond normal hours to get things done even though the company preaches work life balance. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The vibes have been off ever since Ernest took over as CEO. The culture is inclusive and the diversity and inclusion groups are great. They do thirsty Thursday activities for employees but only people working in one of the adjacent buildings truly get to participate. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Lots of meetings. This leads to feeling the need to put in extra hours because there aren't enough hours in the day to do actual work.

Art Director. E&J Gallo’s workday typically meant conceptualizing campaigns for new brand launches to fully refreshing existing brands with totally new looks. Management pushed you to challenge your creative abilities and colleagues were collaboratively sound, professional and exceptionally talented artisans. My experience at Gallo offered lots of opportunities to sharpen my axe; through which, I received numerous awards for my work. The approval process tended to be extremely difficult due to numerous revision rounds and the Legal Team’s watchful eye. My most enjoyable aspects were the photo shoots, Universal Studios feature film-E&J Brandies 
co-branding partnerships and 5-day brainstorm excursions in Monterey, Carmel and San Francisco, CA.

Managers manage by the hands off approach, don’t want to hear problems, lazy people, toxic environment, stressful, overworked, Negative communication, employees are threatened and retaliated against. Get written up for little things.  Have to be in the Good Ole Boy network to get promoted, if you are not liked there is no advancement for you.  Unprofessional communication by managers.  Promise things that they never follow through on. The company only cares about making money and don’t care at all about the employees. There is constant turnover,  management doesn’t listen to their employees.  No ownership or accountability from  Top leadership or management. Management has no idea what they are doing what ever the flavor of the month is how they operate.  They do not hire qualified people. There is no work life balance, the days are long when you stand on your feet most of the day. The leadership does not live by the company values, even though they preach them. Management wants to take no responsibility for anything.

This is a new facility located in Chester County SC. There is an extreme lack of experience in management and engineering. A large percentage of the engineers are just out of college & making decisions without any experienced oversight. The production "Team Leads" have no idea of how to treat their employees and earn respect from the employees. The maintenance techs report to the production team leads and are required to fill in for the machine operators when they are absent and during breaks. When you suggest doing something a different way you are told if you don't like the way it is currently being done then maybe you should work somewhere else. Favoritism is common among several of the line leads and if you happen to be one of their favorites then you can get by with about anything including taking product home with you.


What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing. Nothing at all besides getting free alcohol once in awhile

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The worse management you will every see. You will start work to wait to start work because they route from north jersey and send routes to south jersey which takes 2 to 3 hrs. You will be lucky if you start by second break. All management does is set on they phones until its a issue then act like they on top of the issue. It union but dont go thinking you have a good union rep. because they are a supervisor but still hourly but you wont ever see him on the floor because its beneath him. They pay every 2 weeks. And they changed from weekly. This place is trash

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic but laid back. But very badly managed. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Goto work, clock in and push a broom or find a corner to sit in until tha routes come down so we can start work. Which typically 2 to 3 hrs after u clock in.

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