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Fort Point Beer Reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(37 total reviews)
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Justin Catalana

63% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Fort Point Beer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 37 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fort Point Beer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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37 reviews
1.0
23 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Despite the beer itself being pretty unremarkable and occasionally kind of bad (honestly kind of just glorified homebrew), the marketing is really great and people eat it up for some reason. So you're a part of an "exciting" brand in that sense.

Cons

The beer is mediocre, so eventually I imagine that will become an issue. More importantly, the org structure is a mess, with a weird emphasis on "directors". I've been trying to ignore the fact that I basically work for a couple of trust fund babies, whose parents bought them a brewery, despite them having no actual experience or credibility in the industry. Then they hired their friend from college to make the beer, who also had no experience, with predictable results. It is, on the other hand, really remarkable that the company has gotten this far, which I mostly attribute to really catchy packaging.

2.0
6 Sept 2021

Hope they figure it out…

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong branding. Decent beers. Cool locations. Fellow hourly employees are awesome and hard working.

Cons

Political. Dramatic. Cash strapped (some paychecks were late). No real vision. Little to no understanding / involvement / empathy from senior leadership of their hourly employees. Every day is like a fire drill. The hardest working people (production crew, drivers, warehouse) are not valued.

3.0
15 Jun 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Access to learning about different beers and how they are made Free beer to take home every Friday Company activities you can partake in (baseball games, hot balloon ride, etc) Discounts on food/beer at their bars (Ferry Building, Mill Valley, Valencia) Engagements with various different teams (production, sales, etc all mingle - sometimes)

Cons

Good luck being a person of color and being hired at this company HUUUUGGEEE lack of diversity and they make it very evident in your face Senior management is run by people who are "learning" the industry with no sense of what the industry actually needs No career progression and they instill that in you from day 1 so hopefully, you stay happy or find another job because they won't help with upward movement Everyone talks about everyone's job performance openly until the point where there is no manager-employee confidentiality What is said and what is done are two completely different things High turnover rate

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