Summer Sales Intern - Intern PepsiCo Employee Review

4.0
3 Aug 2016
Recommend
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Pros

This will be a the internship where you learn the most not only about Pepsi, but how the industry works as a whole. You'll spend your first couple of weeks shadowing different parts of the business (operational employees, drivers, upper mgmt, etc) to understand the most you can about the process. From there, you will have about half of the 12 week program to work on your project, which revolves around a certain issue or opportunity. You will create a presentation that will explain your experiences you had, the project you worked on, and when applicable, reccomendations you have towards the problem you're project revolves around.

Cons

The intern experience can be very isolating. I was the only intern at my location, and wasn't around people my own age. This is a very common complaint about the program/full-time in general for campus hires. There are ways around that however. I would advise that if you are an intern, sign up for intern housing at a local college (many schools will have there dorms open for that reason, to house interns that are working in the surrounding area). That way you will be around similar people that you can hang out with.

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Thanks for leaving a review. We're pleased to hear how much you learned during your internship. And we value the advice you shared.

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While PepsiCo promotes internal growth opportunities, many promotions and leadership opportunities appeared to favor college internship hires over long-term internal employees. In some cases, newer college-based management pushed corporate initiatives without fully understanding local market realities or account volume trends. For example, innovation products were sometimes forced into low-volume accounts where sell-through was unrealistic. Operationally, certain delivery processes could be improved, particularly with Tropicana products being stored in coolers on trucks for extended periods, which could impact product quality and increase waste. Work-life balance could also be challenging, as sales representatives commonly worked 50–60 hour weeks. Expectations from corporate leadership were often unrealistic, especially when customer representatives and drivers were expected to fully stock stores while servicing 15+ accounts per day. Experiences could also vary depending on whether locations were union or non-union operated.

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