business development representative

host/hostess

brewer

senior line cook

quality assurance analyst

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The benefits , they seem to want to keep people by providing some of the best benefits in the industry. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
After working for the company for about 6 months I realized that there wasn't going to be anything I could do that would have sufficed for them and appeased my job requirements. Unrelenting work standards no breaks and a hostile attitude towards anybody who goes against the grain. Keep you head down and you'll be fine till they find your replacement. Fantastic story for a company to have started the way that it did but they use that to motivate people and to gain a workforce that seems like they have pride but overall are very overworked and underappreciated ridiculed and put through a scrutiny that is just completely unfair

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Super fast paced work environment, little to no time for dispositions. You'd have to be a perfect person/robot to survive. The turn over rate leaves a lot of opening for conjecture and uncertainty 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and undervalued to say the least. Seemed rewarding but over all it's not fun

Definitely not the worst place to work but it seems a bit out of touch with the climate. An overwhelming majority consensus among employees is that pay is out of touch with reality and advancement has no incentive. If you learn more, you work more but aren't going to be paid any differently in a significant way until 5+ years are sunk in. On one side turnover rate is high and it's technically understaffed but a large portion of people are able to get their jobs done much faster than advertised. They're just trying to stretch say 2hrs worth of work over 8 hours to have something to do. There's 3 shifts but hardly anyone on those extra shifts. If a major concern among workers is that they run out of significant / meaningful work to do, you end up with 3 shifts of people wasting a lot of time for self preservation. Better pay needs to be at the top of the list for retention. Sometimes the easiest answer IS the right answer. Nice 401k plans and health insurance don't mean much when you don't have enough money coming in to contribute to retirement or pay off the remainder of your medical bills. 

I had been with the company for several years as the company grew from several hundred to around 1200 employees. During this time the company went from family owned and family operated, to family owned and operated by a few who don't demostrate that they care for their people. The company used to pride itself on hiring from within and giving current employees a chance to grow. Now the new leadership will see the need for a role or even restructure and there is very little chance that an internal person would be hired for the role. The culture used to be very creative and fun, now that there have been several successive layoffs in the last 3 years the team essentially walks on eggshells waiting for the next round. Yes, they are trying to succeed in market that is not as healthy as it once was, but there is a fine line in how you treat your people. The benefits are still good, but I would not be surprised at all if I heard that benefits had been cut. Overall, I would not recommend Sierra Nevada as a place to work.

Sierra Nevada tries harder than any company I’ve ever seen to make their employees lives and overall well-being better. 
Great leadership
Great benefits
Great training
Solid work life balance 

The biggest issue is upward mobility. Mid-level and upper management turnover is not high, which is good, but it means dozens of employees across the country competing for a small handful of openings (not to mention external candidates).
They’ve tried to mitigate this by offering more competitive salaries and bonus opportunities and I applaud their efforts, but people still leave for other companies because they feel stuck.

The best way to describe working at Sierra Nevada is great benefits big hype when you first get there. The downside is the managers don’t really provide any service other than to stand around and go to meetings. Also understaffed all the time and the hr department is a nightmare. The scheduling has no consistency at all and lack of guidance. Also this is basically like working at a fancy McDonald’s food is pretty basic and no culinary skill necessary. Don’t come here if you are trying to advance your career. Also the way they treat employees is disgraceful your just a cog in a wheel no appreciation for the work you do or the hours you put in. I was really excited in the first few months and that dwindled very quickly after. Would not recommend. 

The employees are amazing. Everyone works together as a team, even across departments. Management varies greatly between departments and favoritism is the life blood of this place. some departments promote very well and there is a ton of mutual respect; the department down the hall never promotes and there's tons of distrust. 
The benefits are out of this world, and the pay is very reasonable and livable. 
Overall, I'd say this is an excellent place to work, depending on your personality and which department you work for. 

I’ve met some great friends there built some great relationships. However, I would caution you against the administration. Make sure you cross you pay attention to benefits paperwork. This company has been flagged by the US Department of Labor for not following the law regarding providing proper notice of Cobra Benefits. It took 72 days to receive my cobra benefits notice from the time I separated from employment causing me some hardship. The company never apologized for their error. I encourage you to come forward and contact the US Department of Labor if you had a similar experience. 

Taproom is a terrible place to work. Management is all over the place and constantly altering their own rules. Lots of favoritism shown towards senior employees. They are operating at 35% capacity in 2022 as they've had so many good employees leave, especially in the kitchen. Lots of employees that skate under the radar or use relationships with supervisors to avoid doing fair share of work, so work load is unbalanced. Kitchen staff is underpaid and overworked, often overwhelmed. Overall the most stressful job in a restaurant I've ever had. Save yourself the stress and stay out of the taproom or don't work there at all.

My typical day included taking cases off of the production lines to ensure that the filling machines were filling to the proper volume, recording the data I found and reporting any inconsistencies that I found. I learned that I enjoy working with numbers and data. The management is very good and understanding. I worked in the bottle shop lab and as long as the data was staying consistent the overall feel was surprisingly casual. The most enjoyable part of the job was the more senior employees would play music over some loud speakers to lighten the mood to make the days go by quicker.

I came into this brand without much experience in the beer industry, specifically the differences between each of the beer offerings. I wasn't really given much direction and was really told to teach myself. The same also goes for learning how to do the other half of the role, which was off premise. I came in with minimal experience and did not get the training or help that I needed, so then when I struggled with the job they took it out on me instead of trying to help me.

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