Pros
They provide a lot of benefits. If you like to drink, an annual reimbursement. Somewhat flexible work environment depending on your manager and department head. (HR doesn't support flexible work environments for anyone but management. Therefore, good managers ignore them.) If you want to work at CBI, apply for a job in the beer division. Beer will be the flagship business for CBI in the not-too-distant future anyway. Wine will be a by-line. Beer management team appears to be more competent and progressive with better ratios between men/women and baby boomers/millenials.
Cons
Booting out baby boomers who have been the company backbone for the past 20+ years and replacing them with the "know it all" generation which is very difficult to work with. Their constant checking of their smartphone and FB page in meetings is not only distracting but disruptive. The facility events (almost monthly) used to be fun but they turned into drunk fests. Putting in the bar for Friday "tastings" was a bad idea! Never had problems in the 12+ years I was there with someone getting a DWI ticket - until last September! You guessed it - it was a millenial! You rarely see baby boomers at the tastings anymore. Everyone in the building used to know each other and now there is a clear generational division that is permeating the entire organization. Unless you are hired into finance or marketing management, there is little advancement opportunity. Be a good a--kissing, backstabbing, or undermining woman and you'll go far. Which leads me to my next point, they are hiring too many women and not enough men. What does this mean? Wage suppression, ladies! There is better compensation in the beer division. Don't assume you can get hired in the wine division and flip to the beer division. Your chances of getting pigeon-holed or having your application pulled in HR by your manager are pretty good in the wine division. You can be 'black balled" for reasons unknown to you. If you've spoken to your manager about advancement and nothing has happened for 3 years - LEAVE! Don't stick around and listen to the "I'm working on it" b.s. You'll be wasting your time and talent. Too many politics throughout the organization. If you don't like wading waist deep in politics on a daily basis, this IS NOT the company for you.