district leader

merchandiser

truck driver

hi-lo driver

delivery driver

PepsiCo

Run an established route either as a relief driver or a dedicated driver(most start in relief). You bring product to the store, and to start you have to down stack each case into what is referred to as stacks, which then get transported onto a two wheeler. 

Customers check you in, and make sure what is on the invoice matches up with what is brought in. After check-in, you will in most cases stock all the product in the customer cooler and bring any extra to a designated area for storage. 

On average you will have between 12-20 stops, with 20 being in more urban and developed areas that require less driving from stop to stop. Your entire load for the day is based on volume, service time, and drive miles which they have all listed on a route manifest for you to look over the day prior, typically by the time you get back the next days manifest is available for you to look at.

In all honesty, the work is easy and physical, but there is constant pressure with making sure you do the stocking part of the job. I personally came to dislike that aspect of the job, but some people don't mind it. It is the bottleneck of the entire day.

You'll begin each day between 4-7AM, if you have a route you can choose when to come in but you should be in by 6AM the latest. If you're in relief you have to be in at 6AM because that is when you select the route you'll be covering. Drivers in relief who have seniority will get the first pick. Some times you will be helping other drivers instead of running a route, which isn't bad. Other times you'll be doing a reset on a store or covering a BCR/Merchandise route that services large national/regional customer accounts. You won't be bringing in a load, just stocking the load that is brought in from the Bulk driver that day and tidying up your product areas/back stock areas. Typically that will be 4-5 stores for the day and you get paid for the milage you drive. 

At the end of the day for drivers you have to check-in which means all the returns and empty cases you bring back are unloaded by the warehouse while they verify that you have all the credits and returns that your handheld says you should.

Pepsi helped me to get my CDL-A and trained me for it, failed once and passed the second time around. You will 100% be ready to take on the job when you start out on your own after training, training is really only good to get you acclimated with the physical aspect of the job, as most other things are common sense/ develop with experience(product knowledge & work processes).

The benefits are pretty good I've heard although I didn't really take advantage of them but good health insurance, dental, sub-par 401k, 2 weeks vacation if you start before May of that year, after it's 1 week. The following you'll get two weeks beginning in January. 6 sick days, with an extra being paid out along with the other 6 at the end of the year if you don't use them. Holidays are all paid and they have a ton of different ones that you typically don't expect to get paid for, and you have them off as well nobody is working on those days.

Here's the thing about pay:

If you take a route, you are not an hourly employee but your pay goes up after 40 hours. You get a base pay and then paid per case that you deliver + .02 for every shell you bring back. At the end of the year, the shells add up to an extra check, but you're paid weekly on them so it doesn't seem like much in the short-term. If you happen to go over 40 hours(you will average 50) then you are paid a VROT which is based upon a bunch of numbers. It is not time and a half. Essentially, the better part of your pay ebbs and flows with the business volume that the route does, but routes are very steady and more busy during the warmer months.

All of this pay applies only if you are covering a route for an entire week from relief pool or you happen to take a route. Some routes require long distance driving to and from the areas of service, you'll still be back that day and no overnight or anything stupid like that but they'll pay you a little extra if you hit certain thresholds in miles with there being 3 different tiers to hit. 


All of this is just my experience and take-aways and could very well of changed since my departure.

You go into a grocery store and often see people filling shelves that don't work for the supermarkets, they are vendors. On the outside surface, it might sound like a chill, laid back job where you get to work by yourself, not have to have a manager constantly over your shoulder, and you can work at your own pace. If you think that is the job description of a merchandiser, you couldn't possibly be more wrong. 

Merchandising is a job that is very difficult and stressful, especially for the soda companies. You usually have to start at 3 to 4 in the morning and have to service an average of 4-6 stores a day (if it's 4 stores, chances are one of them are huge). The difficult part is managing your time because one store could take you 4-6 hours if the salesmen orders 8 pallets that you have to work by yourself with no help. By the time you get to the later stores, you'll be screamed at that you took too long but little did they know you just serviced many stores already and only have two hands. 

For Pepsi, management is also a problem and there's a pretty simple answer on why there's such a problem. Most of your managers are young, 20 somethings, who may have a college degree but basically no idea on what your job entails because they never had to do the job themselves and they have almost no managing experience. This company thinks they can give someone an internship and then instantly give them a management title such as Territory Sales Manager. You got these TSMs managing the Salesmen and Merchandisers who have worked for the company for decades. You think that's right? I sure don't. 

I believe most companies need managers with many years of experience or those who have worked for the company from the bottom up and have risen through the ranks. It may sound like I am a bit bitter because of their young age but the truth is they virtually have no idea on how your job is done and how hard you have to work. They just walk into a store and expect it to look perfect without any regard of how much time you had through out the day, how little or too much the Salesmen ordered, or what the in-store managers wanted. If you have a problem in the store, go to the grocery managers there. It's not how the TSM want you to do the job, it's about how the in-store managers want you to service the store. The TSM's need to get that through their heads because their way may not be the way the in-store managers want it done. 

Of course it's not Pepsi management that's all bad. Some grocery managers can be absolutely unpleasant people to deal with. That's the nature of retail workers/management. Some are miserable people who hate their job so they take it out on you. They constantly ride you and call your bosses if you aren't perfect or make one small mistake. Having to worry about being called by them on a daily basis makes this job stressful to no end. 

My final advise is for people to carefully understand what they are getting into because this job is no picnic. I would say it's not a bad part-time gig because there's much less things you have to deal with if you are part-time. The pay for part-time work is not bad.  But be aware that if you go full-time, be prepared with the burden of having to answer to 5-10 people a day and being on the phone with management all the time.

From a viewpoint of all honesty, and compassion for my fellow humans, do not ever work for Pepsi. I worked for Pepsi for a while in Joplin, Missouri and finally couldn't take it anymore. Let's get this straight, I am no stranger to hard work. I expected the job to be physically demanding, but never in my wildest dreams could I have expected it to kill me like it did. I am physically in shape, and love fast paced work environments. I have had no trouble with working hard in the past. This place is a whole different story altogether. You have to be at your first location at 6 am, which my location was an hour away so I had to leave in my car at 5 am, meaning I had to wake up at 4-4:15 am. You have about 4-6 locations to merchandise a day, most of them being big box stores like Walmart or Target or large supermarkets. You receive a daily schedule everyday that estimates how much time it should take you to complete your tasks at each store. The whole schedule is a lie. At stores that usually took me 6 hours to merchandise, the schedule would estimate that it would take an hour and a half. Yeah, maybe it would have taken an hour and a half with 5 people doing the job. By the time you are finished with your first store, you are completely exhausted and ready to go home for the day. But, here it is, only 11 am and you have 4-5 stores around the same size left, all with 6-12 pallets full of Pepsi stuff left to completely stock on the shelves. On top of frantically trying to fill the near empty shelves and coolers at these stores, you are expected to look at 6 pt font dates on every individual product you put and sort them from oldest to newest. It just isn't possible. The managers come around and check your work to see if you have dated the bottles correctly. Almost as bad as the Pepsi managers following you around, the managers who run the big box stores are constantly demanding things of you and blaming you for things you have no control over. They are your customer, so you are told by your bosses that they are never wrong. And even worse than that, as you fill the shelves for the fortieth time that day, a gigantic fat lady comes right behind you and buys 14-16 2 liter bottles of Pepsi, undoing your progress from moments before. And, if you are working on a Saturday or a Sunday (which you will, it's required), you can't stock the shelves full enough to even be able to leave the store half way stocked, which you get in trouble for if you do. By the time you finish all of your stores and clean up the mess in the back room that the merchandiser before you left, you can barely walk, and it's around 7-8 pm, and you have to get right back in your car and drive an hour back home, where you collapse in your bed, having no energy or time for anything else in your life, only to be back up out of bed in 4-6 hours (depending on when you go to bed) to do the same tiresome and grueling tasks the next day. Like I said, I'm no stranger to hard work, and I work quickly in hard work environments, but working for Pepsi isn't right. Every single person I know who has worked for Pepsi as a merchandiser has had a terrible experience, the same I have encountered. Pepsi doesn't care about their hourly employees, from my experience. They will say they do, but they don't. Pepsi's turnover rate is terrible, and we all know why. So, for the love of Pete, don't work there. You're worth more than that.

I spent pretty much the start of the Covid-19 pandemic until May of 2021 with PepsiCo in East Hanover. We received 1 mask, literally brought to me folded in a Dunkin Donuts napkin and 1 small bottle of hand sanitizer. There was ZERO SUPPORT. They overloaded every store with deliveries, inventory was always overwhelming too much to the point that every store would have to consistently complain to me about the level of ordering. Management doesn't care. It's all about numbers. The order taker makes commission on the orders, so they're chasing numbers. They don't care if you need it or not....they just bombard the stores and expect you to be available 14 hours a day to take care of it. When I began complaining about the excessive hours, having had a newborn and a terminally ill dog to deal with outside the work place, what was their solution? COME IN EARLIER! So, instead of starting at 6, start at 5 because this gets me home quicker...how? This is the nature of the company. Demand demand demand demand demand....the second you need to cut back hours, you start getting written up for "not completing your route". 

So let me break this down for you. Your day is an 8 hour day. But, you HAVE to complete your route. Most days you get 4-5 stores. Each day, 1 or 2 of the stores (sometimes more) will get multiple pallet deliveries. NO COORDINATION WITH DELIVERIES. So, if you show up to store # 1 and the shelves are empty, you better HOPE the store is one of the first on the delivery route. Most of the times, that's not the case. So you'll spend 2 hours wasting time before the delivery to then need to break down 8 pallets when they finally do show up. Great, so now your spending another 3 hours working the store and now it's noon and you've done 1/5 stops. Doesn't matter to them....routes have to finish. Now let's say store # 2 isn't getting deliveries but is getting 4 different displays built. Another 3 hours replenishing and building displays, now you're at the end of your 8 hour day. BUT, you can't go home. Your routes not finished. On to store # 3. Rinse, repeat. Before you know it, you're showing up to store # 5 at 7:30 PM. Okay, fine...hard work, long day...tomorrow they should consider that I worked till 9 pm and maybe lighten the load? NOPE. "Look at all the overtime you're making...but also, you're working too much overtime so try and cut back on that. But also, we need you to finish your route that is impossible to complete in 8 hours. Also, we'll write you up if you leave before your route is done". 

I will give PepsiCo this....in the height on the pandemic, I was able to make a steady paycheck the whole time. I appreciate that. And I started my family with that pay. But, the culture is disgusting. They have a "new manager" that showed up in the middle of the pandemic, whom figured now would be the good time to flex his "new sheriff in town" muscle and try to enforce certain rules to certain associates. And, his own words, is a "numbers guy". So now you have this guy whom you can tell never worked a day in the field (and also let us know that in his bio he presented to us on his first weeks, he was literally hired from pepsico out of college through his internship) only focusing on "the numbers". They have no regard for your personal life. No care as to how long the day takes. Numbers numbers numbers!!

Good luck East Hanover. 

Small format sales rep duties
Check in with management at one of your 12-15 stops DAILY
Merchandise the store, rotate product, pull expired product, take inventory, write the order, check the order, write up credits for expired/damaged product, Talk to customer about any compliants or concerns, take time to try and sell in new items, or power buys (large orders like gatorade displays or rockstar displays) build any displays you may have ordered to fulfill requests. Repeat this over the course of the day. 

Some days can be exhausting and someday can be worse. There really isn't any sense of achievement while working here. Management is constantly asking for more more more. Everything is tracked via some type of metric like volume, damages returned, travel time between stores, how long you're in a store, ect. Even though you mostly work by yourself, just know you're constantly being tracked. Took a break in the parking lot before heading into a stop, you'll be asked why it took you 18 minutes to get into the store. It's nauseating. 

Pepsi carries over 200 plus products, and that varies by package size and flavors. As a sells rep you're tasked with trying to fit everything into a store to gain more shelf space than the competition. That Zero sugar mango pepsi that you were asked to put on every customer's shelf, is now expired and needs to be returned? Well that comes out of your paycheck, and best believe management is going to ask why your returns are so high even though THEY TOLD YOU TO SELL IT. You can't win.

The pay. While it's not the worst pay I've ever had, it's not the best. You WORK for your money. There is a base pay that converts to roughly minimum wage, then you have sales commission and mileage reimbursement (oh yeah you're also forced to use you're own vehicle) which is all tracked and you can't get what you actually drive, because they automatically take away whatever the mileage is to the warehouse out. If you live 10 miles from your first stop, but the warehouse is 30 miles, you won't get paid for the first 30 miles of your trip even though that could be your first 2 or 3 stops depending on route. Better hope you live close to the warehouse. 

Meetings are bi weekly and are mandatory. So after working your 10-12 hr day your forced to drive to an in person meeting that holds no value. Usually everything that happens in the meeting could easily be done over a video group chat, or in an email. But this is the time management uses all those metrics I told you about to beat you down. Didn't meet the sales goal this week? Didn't get every flavor of the 20+ flavors of Mtn dew in every account? You'll be asked why and what could you do better. 

While all this sounds terrible (and most days it is) sometimes it can be great. I've made a lot of good relationships with my customers, and some of them are genuinely good/cool people.

Just like other people have already said this is a good starting point, but not a life long career. If you're looking for a low stress job look else where. If you're looking for a high paying sales job, look else where. If you're looking for a cool "family like" job, LOOK ELSEWHERE. Pepsi will beat you down and ask you, Would you like some more? 


Pepsi is one of the worst companies I have ever worked for. 

My first month or so the person assigned to "train" me was late, incredibly rude and unprofessional, and barely taught me anything about my position. 

I started off with no supervisor, so trying to get information involving the job was impossible. And when an assignment was incomplete, they'd all say "welcome to Pepsi"

You cannot trust ANYONE in the building. They'll use whatever information you give them and turn it around against you. People in different departments will throw your name under the bus so fast just to get ahead themselves. You'll be back stabbed before you even know it. 

Once the Admin department finally got a new manager, she decided to change everything about policies, procedures (which is the one thing you don't do when you're new). She assigned us all a lunch schedule (the only department who couldn't just take a lunch when they wanted, and couldn't talk to any other Admin team). She would text and call you after work hours harassing you about reports and assignments - all the way up to 10PM at night. When you open up your email - imagine 20-30 emails a day, talking down to you, disrespecting you, and being obnoxiously condescending to you. 

Oh yeah, she would hide in the camera room SPYING on you, time stamping your every move and then later question you about where you we're, watch what you we're doing and why you were doing it. Then, let's not forget her questioning your colleagues about your whereabouts, making you "promise not to say anything", but the next day you're on a write up for "not responding quick enough to an email". She would be nice to your face, but to everyone else she's talking behind your back. 

Did I mention the HR team is super corrupt?! If you're seen talking to people they don't like you talking to, you end up written up for it. They'll treat you like you're nothing - you can't go to anyone in the building because anything you say....gets back to HR and next thing you know you're written up. 

I put in my two week notice after desperately searching for another job. During my last two weeks (which were awful) this manager harassed me in emails, texted after hours, come in my office and talk down to me...I eventually quit a whole week before. I was done. Not the way I wanted to leave, but I refused to be treated this way. 

Once I was done with Pepsi I thought it would be an easy transition. Nope, HR decided to also throw one under the belt and Western Union my last paycheck instead of a simple direct deposit. Then, after playing phone tag with the incredibly disrespectful and rude HR lady, she decides to cancel my wire transfer without telling me, making me wait until the end of the business day, and then calling back saying "oh, I gave you the wrong amount." 

Last thing, my former boss decides to tell the head honcho of Pepsi Riverside that the reason I quit was because I "couldn't handle audit and the procedures". 100% untrue. I think that this is the part that bothers me the most. Unfortunately. 

That was my experience in 9 months of working for Pepsi Riverside.  Absolute worst company I've ever had to work for.

Being a delivery driver isn't a job for everyone. The job requires long hours an being at work between 4 am to 6 am everyday. Working for Pepsi, most of there routes are setup for 12 to 14 hour days because they are so short handed. 

For my time there, I heard of roughly 15 quitting. Most because of the long hours and the pay. Pepsi pays there delivery drivers like they are sales reps. After training, you are paid $570 a week base and .10 1/2 per case you deliver. During training you will ride with an experienced driver for maybe 5 days then you will work what they call a Geo route which is mainly 7/11's and On Que's. You will be on these routes until they have all of your access for the handheld ready to run on your own. I felt sorry for one the delivery driver managers Chris because he was always having to deal with people calling in or not showing up. 

Pepsi has a lot of product they deliver so be ready. They deliver Sobe, Lipton, Starbucks. Rockstar Energy and Gatorade outside of the regular Pepsi products. The invoices for products are abbreviated so it will be rough figuring out what is what. Also you have to check your truck before noon daily and call in any shortages. If you do not, Pepsi will charge you for the missing product. 

Advancement opportunities will not happen until you have been there for at least 6 months. At that point you can apply for anything within Pepsico. Locally, there isn't room to advance unless someone quits are gets fired and hope that management doesn't have someone else lined up for that position. 

Most of the complaints I heard from customers was about the Pepsi sales reps. The biggest complaint was that no one ever saw a sales rep and when they got there deliveries they always got product that they didn't need and most of the time, it would get refused. So remember, if you don't deliver product, you are missing out on $$$.

The complaints from drivers besides long hours is that certain places you deliver to do not stock product and wait on the delivery driver to do it. Here in Oklahoma, that was mainly 7 eleven's. 90% of these stops, you would be there for at least 2 hrs stocking because none of there employees would stock and if it was one of the newer 7 eleven's, you would be there longer. I now that 2 drivers quit because they didn't want to have to deal with 7 elevens again.

The benefits are decent and the fact that they are active day 1 is a plus. You do get free water and Gatorade daily. As long as you gave managers notice, they would work with you on getting time off.  At least once a month, Pepsi will have food delivered for the drivers, which was nice. You do get paid weekly which is a plus.

I think that if Pepsi did there training differently and switched there drivers over to an hourly wage, more people would stay. I liked working there and I wasn't happy that I had to leave but I had to do what was best for me at the time.

My work day is compacted with product sales, merchandising requirements, conference calls, face-to-face interactions with multiple customers, and timely deadlines. In addition to gaining a great deal of experience working in a fast-paced environment, I was given the opportunity to meet customers face-to-face and to develop those relationships through a number of avenues, such as: trustworthy sales deals, profitable margin opportunities, daily visits, sales plans, and data reviews. It was great to build trusting relationships with people based on ethical practices and good, honest feedback about sales. At the end of the day, I am looking to make my company profitable, as well as increase the profits of the customers in which I am servicing. 

Management at Pepsi Beverages Company is constantly evolving. If there is a way to make a process(es) more efficient and profitable, Pepsi will do its best to make the necessary changes, in an ethical, moralistic fashion. I have always had great relationships with my supervisory staff, and I owe much of that credit to the fact that they are continuously spending time in the trade. They want to see, first hand, what we are dealing with on the front lines. All-in-all, my co-workers are helpful and team-oriented. Many times, we have to cover each other's backs, in order to make sure that the company succeeds. Although it may be a bit inconvenient at the time, it is what is necessary in order to make the business successful. 

Pepsi Beverages Company offers a lot of great opportunities, but those opportunities are often met with physically demanding tasks. My body, while still young and useful, has taken a bit of a beating over the years. On average, the products that I move weigh approximately 60 pounds per package. In my opinion, the physical nature of the business is the hardest part of the job. There are other challenges, of course. One of the most frustrating challenges is selling products (especially new, innovative products) to customers who have little, or no, interest in carrying those packages. There is ample pressure, from Pepsi, to push innovation, but that pressure is often met with ample push-back from customers. As a salesperson, it is often difficult to keep both sides satisfied and profitable as a business with innovation packages. 

Overall, Pepsi offers great benefits and a great deal of opportunities for advancement. I love the people that surround me, and I've had a lot of fun getting to know my customers over the years. It has led me to a vast amount of knowledge in relationship building, sales tactics, and marketing schemes. I look forward to using those skills as I move forward with my career.

This review is for the Pepsi warehouse/factory at 6500 Sunset Rd in Las Vegas.
This was the most unorganized place I have ever worked in my life. Some highlights: 

- Absolutely no training programs in place for new employees. No trainers of any kind.
- Absolutely no job descriptions available to employees, so workers just decide what they do and don't want to do during their shifts. 
- Half union and half company facility, which makes everything more frustrating and complicated than it has to be. Union can't touch company work and company can't touch union work, etc.
- Terribly slow and/or broken forklift and pallet jack equipment that never gets fixed or put out of order.
- Machines, printers, and other production line equipment that are constantly prone to error/breakdown and never troubleshooted or fixed properly by the maintenance team.
- Toxic coworkers who regularly hide, disappear, neglect to answer radio calls, or just go sit in the locker rooms or parking lot, during work hours with no repercussions.
- New hires that are not qualified and have almost no prior experience doing the kind of work they were hired to perform.
- New hires that were allowed past probation without proving they could perform the essential functions of their job because there is no training program or new hire oversight.
- Ineffective supervisors and team leads, who lacked leadership qualities and were afraid to bring any of the above issues to the attention of their superiors.
- No support from management, HR, or facility leadership when it came to any of the above issues. Just round table meetings that never lead to any changes or process improvements.

The building is way too small to hold the amount of product they attempt to produce.
They eliminated start of shift production hand-offs/huddle meetings and replaced them with pointless stretching exercises instead. 
Employees work 12-hour 2 days on 2 days off schedules. I was pretty much never able to comfortably leave the city of Las Vegas unless I used vacation time. 
Literally the only decent thing about this place was the hourly pay, but it's not worth all the daily headaches and frustration. I'm convinced that the pay is above average because company leadership knows this place is a complete mess; and they're unable to retain workers for very long. There are very few employees here that have been employed for 10 years or more. Most of the staff, from top to bottom, was hired within the past 5 years. That should tell you plenty. 

Working at pepsi has been by far the worst experience I have ever had the displeasure of having. Your normal day starts at around 4 am when you drive 10+ miles to your first store, and then have to clean up the mess made by the previous merchandiser.  During this time, you are then berated by loading dock workers and grocery managers for not ordering enough product (which is not your job in the first place).  Then, when you attempt to explain the situation and how to reconcile for it, they threaten you with a "kick-out", which is basically where they ban you from the store and report you to your supervisor (which then leads into more issues).  After cleaning up the mess made by the previous merch, you then receive your product load, where you receive upwards of 8 to 10 pallets worth of product, some product is snuck into order to increase the 'commission pay' sales reps receive for each product sold, newer products = more pay, great for the sales reps but not for the merchandiers.  additionally, Newer products = no place to go = takes up space in backroom = client gets angry at you.  once finished with your first store, and taking upwards of 4 hours to do so, you are then expected to go immediately to your next store. If you are expected to arrive at a certain time, not only will your supervisor contact you and tell you to drop everything you are doing, but every so often the actual client will call you and yell at you over the phone for "being late".  Not leaving a whole lot of time to take state mandated breaks or lunches, you could work at full 10 hour shift plus overtime, and not have a single break.  During my time there, supervisors pretty much told us that our breaks were the times driving between stores. On normal to semi busy days, you could work upwards to 14 hours. On holidays, such as fourth of july, memorial day, labor day, etc., you could work upwards of 18 hours a day (with Fourth of July being the busiest day of the entire year, just outside of Superbowl Sunday).  Finally, you have to use your own personal vehicle, which if you have a beater, racks up miles on your car and they do not pay for any issues that may occur while on the job because they will use the excuse "this could have happened on your own personal time."   They do pay you a return for gas, at the time it was 24 cents a mile, but the issue is that it arrives on your normal paycheck instead of separately, meaning that the gas mileage you accrued is taxed and is immediately removed from your pay.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
District leader 45 salaries reported	$70,459 per year
Merchandiser 36 salaries reported	$18.64 per hour
Truck driver 22 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour
Hi-lo driver 1 salary reported	$25.50 per hour
Delivery driver 3 salaries reported	$63,667 per year

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