Pros
•Good pay •Good experience •Smart coworkers •EXCELLENT networking opportunities •Company keeps growing •Very innovative! Develops it's own software
Kontras
•Cult-like atmosphere – a blind devotion and love for the company is expected at the expense of anything not directly related to Labatt. •Executives trash-talk former employees in front of current whenever they leave. •Benefits besides pay are substandard (vacation and holidays are a joke) •Labatt would rather ask employees to flood the internet would positive reviews than try to fix their problems. Review their rating trends and check out some of the earlier reviews. They started out terrible before an influx of positive reviews rolled in. •A top executive has stated that “Democracy is governance by the poor,” claimed that an upper class is needed to step and guide the lower class, and has cited a famous communist manifesto as a major influence on the company’s philosophy. Employees are treated like children and executives want to control what they do outside of work. I have been personally pulled into an executive’s office and chewed out simply for eating lunch with a former employee. •If the company gets the feeling you might be looking for a job with another company, they will fire you without bothering to check for actual facts. They have lost lawsuits over this. •Employees who stay too long have a hard time finding jobs elsewhere. There is largely because much of Labatt’s software is outdated or proprietary (the company developed and owns it), meaning if you learn how to use it you are learning how to use software not used by other companies. •Has a bad reputation around San Antonio. Many non-Labatt professionals view Labatt management as a joke. Ask around.