Brenntag reviews

3.1

51% would recommend to a friend

(677 total reviews)
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Christian Kohlpaintner

46% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Brenntag has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 677 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brenntag employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Atacado e varejo industry (3.5 stars).

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677 reviews
2.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy work, great co workers

Cons

Too many unnecessary office employees, and management. Driver facing cameras. Childish policies. A lot of brainstorming that mostly revolves around how to blame a driver or how to take money back out of drivers pockets in favor of paying people in the office whose jobs should be consolidated or replaced. They started paying more after Covid because their hand was forced, then the big minds got together and made new policies to take more than half of that money back from the driver and people who work overtime because clearly those people aren’t smart enough to figure that out and will just take it.

1.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

When I was able to finally put in my two weeks.

Cons

I could barely afford groceries on their salary. Terrible upper management, that sat around stroking their own egos and solving not one issue for the team. Upper management bullying. Was told for the first 6 months of working there that we were awful. Worked 12 hour days the first weeks in without one thank you. Gaslighting on a level I have never experienced. Zero opportunity for advancement. Would tell us no overtime for months, then pull us in the office and ask why we were not utilizing all the overtime we were allowed to use.

1.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and PTO. Decent pay. 401k

Cons

Too many people leaving or getting let go. Over 12 (including good supervisors) in the past year. No one being replaced. Monthly meetings are repetitive and employees are not allowed to give feedback except through our direct supervisor who is usually (or acts like they are) too busy to communicate with. They say we are doing better with deliveries but that’s only because we lost over a third of our customers. They expect 100% from employees zero tolerance for error. No trust within the company. It used to be a company I was proud to work for. Now I wonder when my time for the chopping block will come.

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