GALLO Reviews

-Extremely high turn over amongst Sales Reps. 90% of sales reps are so miserable that they either quit within the first few months or wait until they've got one year with Gallo on their resume and get out ASAP. There is a huge amount of negativity amongst sales reps because almost everyone is looking for the fastest way out of the company to either make more money or find work/life balance. -Work/life balance is terrible. It may seem enticing to work from 6am-2pm but really Gallo expects 8 hours in the field plus multiple hours of administrative work at home every day, including weekends! The company purposefully schedules meetings at the end of the day, far from where most employees live and never fails to run hours over time. -Gallo hires almost exclusively directly out of college and blatantly takes advantage of young people who have no prior work experience. They push these young people to work beyond reasonable limits and pit sales reps against each other in order to encourage 50-60 hour work weeks. -Unlike almost all other sales companies, Gallo offers no commission. Instead they offer only exclusive company trips to places like Tahoe and Vegas. About 20 people out of 200 go on these trips. However, if you don't want to go on a weekend bender supervised by your boss and work colleagues then there is absolutely no incentive to sell. There are no cash incentives and the aforementioned trips do not include a plus one. -Sales expectations are set astronomically high without any tangible reward for achievement other than the aforementioned trips, a pat on the back and a promise of earlier promotion. -Management (especially at the district manager level) is generally more concerned with their own personal gain than the well-being and happiness of the employees they manage.

Be wary of all these positive comments on Glassdoor. Gallo goes out of their way to ask for reviews from employees they think will give them a great review. This is because they have a difficult time retaining employees, so they're trying to attract new talent. They pay their employees well for the area, but that is for the valley*. Pay is about 20-30% higher in the bay area. They expect their employees to be in office with no WFH leniency, no excuses (kids, family, etc). Its highly competitive (they like this) and they expect you to sacrifice your free time to get work done even with heavy workloads. Employees are expected to deliver so they are treated as work horses, especially for those that do good work. Never expect to get anything above a 4% on a personal assessment which is high, the average is around 3%. Because the culture is so competitive it's going downhill. There are some great people but there are also ALLOT of bad seeds, especially in management. Management isn’t expected to do any grunt work even in times of need. They don’t know their employees jobs- this reflects poorly in your PA reviews, workload, etc. There’s ALLOT of politics involved with promotions. There's no little to no diversity in upper management.